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Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction

1. Basic flight principles

Terminology
Effects of controls
Blade forces and aerodynamics
Rotor head principles
Ground effect
Flare effect
Performance

2. Vortex ring state
3. Recirculation
4. Ground resonance
5. Retreating blade stall
6. Dynamic rollover
7. Overpitching
8. Main rotor strikes
9. Mid-air collisions
   

   Other aircraft
   Wire strikes
   Bird strikes

10. Mast bumping
11. Engine failure (autorotations)
12. Tail rotor failure
    

    Loss of tail rotor effectiveness

13. Mechanical failures
    

    Maintenance reliability
    Pilot inspections
    Thermal runaway
    Hydraulic jack stall
    Bogus operational parts

14. Fuel
    

    Contamination
    Starvation (including Carburetor icing)
    Exhaustion

15. Fire
16. Ditching
17. Loading issues
    

    Sling loading
    Inadvertent cargo hook releases
    Overloading
    Center of gravity
    Loose objects in the cockpit

18. Winching
19. Weather
    

    Wind
    Visibility factors
    Turbulence
    Wake turbulence
    Cumulonimbus clouds
    Lightning
    Hail and heavy rain
    Winter dangers - snow, ice and cold

20. Crew and pre-flight hazards
    

    Inadequately briefed personnel
    Tail rotor dangers
    Main rotor dangers
    Blade sailing
    Damage by foreign objects
    Exiting aircraft in-flight
    Failure to engage control locks
    Protective covers
    Failure to remove covers/tie-downs

21. Human factors
    

    Medical matters
    Noise and vibration
    Colds
    Intoxication
    Fatigue
    Stress
    Hyperventilation
    Hypoxia
    Hypoglycemia
    Dehydration
    Transporting patients
    Diving and flying
    Head injuries
    Spatial disorientation
    Flicker vertigo
    Crew resource management

22. Training mishaps

Further reading
Index

Approximately 400 pages (including index)