14 CFR 27.481 - Tail-down landing conditions.

Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 18, 2025

Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space last revised: Nov 03, 2025

§ 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.

authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44704

source: Docket No. 5074, 29 FR 15695, Nov. 24, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

cite as: 14 CFR 27.481