JAR 29.783 Doors
(a) Each closed cabin must have at least one
adequate and easily accessible external door.
(b) Each external door must be located, and
appropriate operating procedures must be
established, to ensure that persons using the door
will not be endangered by the rotors, propellers,
engine intakes, and exhausts when the operating
procedures are used.
(c) There must be means for locking crew and
external passenger doors and for preventing their
opening in flight inadvertently or as a result of
mechanical failure. It must be possible to open
external doors from inside and outside the cabin
with the rotorcraft on the ground even though
persons may be crowded against the door on the
inside of the rotorcraft. The means of opening must
be simple and obvious and so arranged and marked
that it can be readily located and operated.
(d) There must be reasonable provisions to
prevent the jamming of any external door in a minor
crash as a result of fuselage deformation under the
following ultimate inertial forces except for cargo or
service doors not suitable for use as an exit in an
emergency:
(1) Upward – 1.5 g
(2) Forward – 4.0 g
(3) Sideward – 2.0 g
(4) Downward – 4.0 g
(e) There must be means for direct visual
inspection of the locking mechanism by crew
members to determine whether the external doors
(including passenger, crew, service, and cargo
doors) are fully locked. There must be visual means
to signal to appropriate crew members when
normally used external doors are closed and fully
locked.
(f) For outward opening external doors usable
for entrance or egress, there must be an auxiliary
safety latching device to prevent the door from
opening when the primary latching mechanism fails.
If the door does not meet the requirements of subparagraph
(c) of this paragraph with this device in
place, suitable operating procedures must be
established to prevent the use of the device during
take-off and landing.
(g) If an integral stair is installed in a
passenger entry door that is qualified as a passenger
emergency exit, the stair must be designed so that
under the following conditions the effectiveness of
passenger emergency egress will not be impaired:
(1) The door, integral stair, and operating
mechanism have been subjected to the inertial
forces specified in sub-paragraph (d) of this
paragraph, acting separately relative to the
surrounding structure.
(2) The rotorcraft is in the normal ground
attitude and in each of the attitudes
corresponding to collapse of one or more legs, or
primary members, as applicable, of the landing
gear.
(h) Non jettisonable doors used as ditching
emergency exits must have means to enable them to
be secured in the open position and remain secure
for emergency egress in sea state conditions
prescribed for ditching.
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