Tail-down landing conditions.

  1. Law
  2. CFR 14
  3. Aeronautics and Space
  4. Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation
  5. Aircraft
  6. Airworthiness Standards: Normal Category Rotorcraft
  7. Strength Requirements
  8. Ground Loads
  9. Tail-down landing conditions.

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§ 27.481 Tail-down landing conditions.

(a) The rotorcraft is assumed to be in the maximum nose-up attitude allowing ground clearance by each part of the rotorcraft.

(b) In this attitude, ground loads are assumed to act perpendicular to the ground.


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