[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 14CFR23.66]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 23_AIRWORTHINESS STANDARDS: NORMAL, UTILITY, ACROBATIC, AND 

COMMUTER CATEGORY AIRPLANES--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart B_Flight

 

Sec. 23.66  Takeoff climb: One-engine inoperative.



    For normal, utility, and acrobatic category reciprocating engine-

powered airplanes of more than 6,000 pounds maximum weight, and turbine 

engine-powered airplanes in the normal, utility, and acrobatic category, 

the steady gradient of climb or descent must be determined at each 

weight, altitude, and ambient temperature within the operational limits 

established by the applicant with--



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    (a) The critical engine inoperative and its propeller in the 

position it rapidly and automatically assumes;

    (b) The remaining engine(s) at takeoff power;

    (c) The landing gear extended, except that if the landing gear can 

be retracted in not more than seven seconds, the test may be conducted 

with the gear retracted;

    (d) The wing flaps in the takeoff position(s):

    (e) The wings level; and

    (f) A climb speed equal to that achieved at 50 feet in the 

demonstration of Sec. 23.53.



[Doc. No. 27807, 61 FR 5186, Feb. 9, 1996]