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  • Chapter 10: Performance Maneuvers › Steep Turns

    airplane’s level turning performance is limited by structural and aerodynamic design, as well as available power. The airplane’s limiting load factor determines the maximum bank angle that can be maintained in level flight without exceeding the airplane ... stalling speed and maneuvering speed decreases. At speeds at or below VA or VO, the airplane will stall before exceeding the design load limit…

  • Chapter 13: Transition to Multiengine Airplanes › Performance and Limitations

    taken in the event of an engine failure. The pilot should be thoroughly familiar with the airplane’s performance capabilities and limitations in order to make an informed takeoff decision as part of the preflight planning. That decision should ... continuing flight or landing, even off-airport. If single-engine climb performance is adequate for continued flight, and the airplane has been promptly and correctly configured, the climb after takeoff may be continued. If single-engine climb performance is such…

  • Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Stalls › Accelerated Stalls

    full one-sided deflection with one control surface without causing structural damage. VO is a historical operating limitation applicable to certain airplanes only. It represents the maximum speed where, at any given weight, the pilot may apply full control excursion ... unloads the wing, before exceeding the design load limit. At speeds above VA or VO, the airplane can reach its design load limit at less than the critical AOA. This condition makes it possible to add additional load and overstress…

  • 14 CFR § 121.161 Airplane limitations: Type of route.

    Airplane limitations: Type of route. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, unless approved by the Administrator in accordance with Appendix P of this part and authorized in the certificate holder's operations specifications, no certificate holder ... operate a turbine-engine-powered airplane over a route that contains a point— (1) Farther than a flying time from an Adequate Airport (at a one-engine-inoperative cruise speed under standard conditions in still air) of 60 minutes…

  • 14 CFR § 135.399 Small nontransport category airplane performance operating limitations.

    Small nontransport category airplane performance operating limitations. (a) No person may operate a reciprocating engine or turbopropeller-powered small airplane that is certificated under § 135.169(b) (2), (3), (4), (5), or (6) unless that person complies with the takeoff weight ... limitations in the approved Airplane Flight Manual or equivalent for operations under this part, and, if the airplane is certificated under § 135.169(b) (4) or (5) with the landing weight limitations in the Approved Airplane Flight Manual or equivalent…