---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 27.481"
title: "14"
number: "27.481"
heading: "Tail-down landing conditions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/27.481"
---

# §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.**

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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