14 C.F.R. § 105.17   Flight visibility and clearance from cloud requirements.


Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space


Title 14: Aeronautics and Space
PART 105—PARACHUTE OPERATIONS
Subpart B—Operating Rules

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§ 105.17   Flight visibility and clearance from cloud requirements.

No person may conduct a parachute operation, and no pilot in command of an aircraft may allow a parachute operation to be conducted from that aircraft—

(a) Into or through a cloud, or

(b) When the flight visibility or the distance from any cloud is less than that prescribed in the following table:

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------                                        Flight                                      visibility              Altitude                  (statute   Distance from clouds                                        miles)------------------------------------------------------------------------1,200 feet or less above the surface           3  500 feet below, 1,000 regardless of the MSL altitude.                   feet above, 2,000                                                   feet horizontal.More than 1,200 feet above the                 3  500 feet below, 1,000 surface but less than 10,000 feet                 feet above, 2,000 MSL.                                              feet horizontal.More than 1,200 feet above the                 5  1,000 feet below, surface and at or above 10,000 feet               1,000 feet above, 1 MSL.                                              mile horizontal.------------------------------------------------------------------------

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