14 CFR 105.17
§ 105.17 Flight visibility and clearance from cloud requirements.
United States · 14 CFR — Aeronautics and Space · Status: effective
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- 14 CFR 105.17, § 105.17 Flight visibility and clearance from cloud requirements, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/56369
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No person may conduct a parachute operation, and no pilot in command of an aircraft may allow a parachute operation to be conducted from that aircraft—
(a) Into or through a cloud, or
(b) When the flight visibility or the distance from any cloud is less than that prescribed in the following table:
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.