---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 27.805"
title: "14"
number: "27.805"
heading: "Flight crew emergency exits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/27.805"
---

# §27.805. Flight crew emergency exits.

- (a) For rotorcraft with passenger emergency exits that are not convenient to the flight crew, there must be flight crew emergency exits, on both sides of the rotorcraft or as a top hatch in the flight crew area.
- (b) Each flight crew emergency exit must be of sufficient size and must be located so as to allow rapid evacuation of the flight crew. This must be shown by test.
- (c) Each flight crew emergency exit must not be obstructed by water or flotation devices after an emergency landing on water. This must be shown by test, demonstration, or analysis.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Doc. No. 29247, 64 FR 45094, Aug. 18, 1999]

### 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.

### Amendments

[Doc. No. 29247, 64 FR 45094, Aug. 18, 1999]