[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR121.187]



[Page 440]

 

                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                               (CONTINUED)

 

PART 121_OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: DOMESTIC, FLAG, AND SUPPLEMENTAL 

OPERATIONS--Table of Contents

 

          Subpart I_Airplane Performance Operating Limitations

 

Sec. 121.187  Airplanes: Reciprocating engine-powered: Landing 

limitations: Alternate airport.



    (a) No person may list an airport as an alternate airport in a 

dispatch or flight release unless the airplane (at the weight 

anticipated at the time of arrival at the airport), based on the 

assumptions in Sec. 121.185, can be brought to a full stop landing, 

within 70 percent of the effective length of the runway.

    (b) This section does not apply to large nontransport category 

airplanes operated under Sec. 121.173(c).



[Doc. No. 6258, 29 FR 19198, Dec. 31, 1964; 30 FR 130, Jan. 7, 1965, as 

amended by Amdt. 121-251, 60 FR 65928, Dec. 20, 1995]