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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Flight
visibility
Altitude (statute Distance from clouds
miles)------------------------------------------------------------------------1,200 feet or less above the surface 3 500 feet below, 1,000
regardless of the MSL altitude. feet above, 2,000
feet horizontal.More than 1,200 feet above the 3 500 feet below, 1,000
surface but less than 10,000 feet feet above, 2,000
MSL. feet horizontal.More than 1,200 feet above the 5 1,000 feet below,
surface and at or above 10,000 feet 1,000 feet above, 1
MSL. mile horizontal.------------------------------------------------------------------------