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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–19 Edition) 

§ 33.78 

(2) Require the engine to be shut-

down. 

(d) For an engine that incorporates a 

protection device, compliance with this 
section need not be demonstrated with 
respect to ice formed forward of the 
protection device if it is shown that— 

(1) Such ice is of a size that will not 

pass through the protective device; 

(2) The protective device will with-

stand the impact of the ice; and 

(3) The ice stopped by the protective 

device will not obstruct the flow of in-
duction air into the engine with a re-
sultant sustained reduction in power or 
thrust greater than those values de-
fined by paragraph (c) of this section. 

(e) Compliance with the require-

ments of this section must be dem-

onstrated by engine ice ingestion test 
under the following ingestion condi-
tions or by validated analysis showing 
equivalence of other means for dem-
onstrating soft body damage tolerance. 

(1) The minimum ice quantity and di-

mensions will be established by the en-
gine size as defined in Table 1 of this 
section. 

(2) The ingested ice dimensions are 

determined by linear interpolation be-
tween table values, and are based on 
the actual engine’s inlet hilite area. 

(3) The ingestion velocity will simu-

late ice from the inlet being sucked 
into the engine. 

(4) Engine operation will be at the 

maximum cruise power or thrust un-
less lower power is more critical. 

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Engine Inlet Hilite area 

(sq. inch) 

Thickness 

(inch) 

Width 
(inch) 

Length 

(inch) 

0 .......................................................................................................................

0 .25 0 

3.6 

80 .....................................................................................................................

0 .25 6 

3.6 

300 ...................................................................................................................

0 .25 12 3.6 

700 ...................................................................................................................

0 .25 12 4.8 

2800 .................................................................................................................

0 .35 12 8.5 

5000 .................................................................................................................

0 .43 12 

11.0 

7000 .................................................................................................................

0 .50 12 

12.7 

7900 .................................................................................................................

0 .50 12 

13.4 

9500 .................................................................................................................

0 .50 12 

14.6 

11300 ...............................................................................................................

0 .50 12 

15.9 

13300 ...............................................................................................................

0 .50 12 

17.1 

16500 ...............................................................................................................

0 .5 12 

18.9 

20000 ...............................................................................................................

0 .5 12 

20.0 

[Doc. No. 16919, 49 FR 6852, Feb. 23, 1984, as 
amended by Amdt. 33–19, 63 FR 14798, Mar. 26, 
1998; 63 FR 53278, Oct. 5, 1998; Amdt. 33–20, 65 
FR 55856, Sept. 14, 2000; Amdt. 33–34, 79 FR 
65537, Nov. 4, 2014] 

§ 33.78

Rain and hail ingestion. 

(a) 

All engines. 

(1) The ingestion of 

large hailstones (0.8 to 0.9 specific grav-
ity) at the maximum true air speed, up 
to 15,000 feet (4,500 meters), associated 
with a representative aircraft oper-
ating in rough air, with the engine at 
maximum continuous power, may not 
cause unacceptable mechanical damage 
or unacceptable power or thrust loss 
after the ingestion, or require the en-
gine to be shut down. One-half the 
number of hailstones shall be aimed 
randomly over the inlet face area and 
the other half aimed at the critical 
inlet face area. The hailstones shall be 
ingested in a rapid sequence to simu-

late a hailstone encounter and the 
number and size of the hailstones shall 
be determined as follows: 

(i) One 1-inch (25 millimeters) diame-

ter hailstone for engines with inlet 
areas of not more than 100 square 
inches (0.0645 square meters). 

(ii) One 1-inch (25 millimeters) di-

ameter and one 2-inch (50 millimeters) 
diameter hailstone for each 150 square 
inches (0.0968 square meters) of inlet 
area, or fraction thereof, for engines 
with inlet areas of more than 100 
square inches (0.0645 square meters). 

(2) In addition to complying with 

paragraph (a)(1) of this section and ex-
cept as provided in paragraph (b) of 
this section, it must be shown that 
each engine is capable of acceptable op-
eration throughout its specified oper-
ating envelope when subjected to sud-
den encounters with the certification 
standard concentrations of rain and 

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