Window tinting regulations

They vary by state.

Here’s the tint laws for TX—

Windshield: 25% VLT tint is allowed above the manufacturer's AS-1 line or top 5 inches, with less than 25% reflection.

Front Side windows: Must allow more than 25% of light in.

Back Side windows: Any darkness can be used.

Rear Window: Any darkness can be used with side outside mirrors, 25% VLT without.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
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Used to be in Part 23.775(e). Now buried in AC 23-17C under same paragraph number:
(e) The windshield and side windows forward of the pilot's back when the pilot is seated in the normal flight position must have a luminous transmittance value of not less than 70 percent.
 
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Bell206 said:
Used to be in Part 23.775(e). Now buried in AC 23-17C under same paragraph number:
(e) The windshield and side windows forward of the pilot's back when the pilot is seated in the normal flight position must have a luminous transmittance value of not less than 70 percent.
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Bell, are you saying that the equation is no longer in the regulations and is a simple advisory?

Jim
 
weirdjim said:
Bell, are you saying that the equation is no longer in the regulations and is a simple advisory?
Jim
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Yes. The intent of the Part 23 rewrite was to make the certification of aircraft under this part more flexible. So they took certain requirements and transferred them into ACs and kept the important ones in the FARs. Here's a summary:
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=88746

For example, compare the TOC of Part 23 to Part 25, 27, 29:
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-i...true&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title14/14cfrv1_02.tpl#0

AC 23-17C is just one of a number of guidance docs for new certifications. But in most cases they used the original FAR paragraph number in the ACs.

Old FAR 23.775:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/23.775#
New AC 23.775 (Page 98):
https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_23-17C.pdf
 
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Bell206 said:
Yes. The intent of the Part 23 rewrite was to make the certification of aircraft under this part more flexible. So they took certain requirements and transferred them into ACs and kept the important ones in the FARs.
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I can't find where they hid the fuel system requirments. The 23.9xx listings. Gone, they are. AC 23-17C doesn't have them either.
 
Ryanb said:
They vary by state.

Here’s the tint laws for TX—

Windshield: 25% VLT tint is allowed above the manufacturer's AS-1 line or top 5 inches, with less than 25% reflection.

Front Side windows: Must allow more than 25% of light in.

Back Side windows: Any darkness can be used.

Rear Window: Any darkness can be used with side outside mirrors, 25% VLT without.
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Similar here in GA. But I did see a vehicle with completely blacked out windows, All of them, Windshield too. And a permit sticker on the windshield, allowing the dark glass for medical reasons. Being that sensitive to light, It's a wonder they got a drivers license.
 
bluerooster said:
Similar here in GA. But I did see a vehicle with completely blacked out windows, All of them, Windshield too. And a permit sticker on the windshield, allowing the dark glass for medical reasons. Being that sensitive to light, It's a wonder they got a drivers license.
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Seems to me that's what sunglasses are for.
 
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