Table of contents - Fatal Traps for Helicopter Pilots

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction

Basic flight principles
- Terminology
- Effects of controls
- Blade forces and aerodynamics
- Rotor head principles
- Ground effect
- Flare effect
- Performance
Vortex ring state
Recirculation
Ground resonance
Retreating blade stall
Dynamic rollover
Overpitching
Main rotor strikes
Mid-air collisions
- Other aircraft
- Wire strikes
- Bird strikes
Mast bumping
Engine failure (autorotations)
Tail rotor failure
- Loss of tail rotor effectiveness
Mechanical failures
- Maintenance reliability
- Pilot inspections
- Thermal runaway
- Hydraulic jack stall
- Bogus operational parts
Fuel
- Contamination
- Starvation (including Carburetor icing)
- Exhaustion
Fire
Ditching
Loading issues
- Sling loading
- Inadvertent cargo hook releases
- Overloading
- Center of gravity
- Loose objects in the cockpit
Winching
Weather
- Wind
- Visibility factors
- Turbulence
- Wake turbulence
- Cumulonimbus clouds
- Lightning
- Hail and heavy rain
- Winter dangers - snow, ice and cold
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
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
Training mishaps

Further reading
Index

Approximately 400 pages (including index)

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