14 CFR 27.939
§ 27.939 Turbine engine operating characteristics.
United States · 14 CFR — Aeronautics and Space · Status: effective
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- 14 CFR 27.939, § 27.939 Turbine engine operating characteristics, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/54554
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(a) Turbine engine operating characteristics must be investigated in flight to determine that no adverse characteristics (such as stall, surge, or flameout) are present, to a hazardous degree, during normal and emergency operation within the range of operating limitations of the rotorcraft and of the engine.
(b) The turbine engine air inlet system may not, as a result of airflow distortion during normal operation, cause vibration harmful to the engine.
(c) For governor-controlled engines, it must be shown that there exists no hazardous torsional instability of the drive system associated with critical combinations of power, rotational speed, and control displacement.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.