Equipment requirements: Carrying passengers under VFR at night or under VFR over-the-top conditions.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 14

No person may operate an aircraft carrying passengers under VFR at night or under VFR over-the-top, unless it is equipped with— (a) A gyroscopic rate-of-turn indicator except on the following aircraft: (1) Airplanes with a third attitude instrument system usable through flight attitudes of 360 degrees of pitch-and-roll and installed in accordance with the instrument requirements prescribed in § 121.305(j) of this chapter. (2) Helicopters with a third attitude instrument system usable through flight attitudes of ±80 degrees of pitch and ±120 degrees of roll and installed in accordance with § 29.1303(g) of this chapter. (3) Helicopters with a maximum certificated takeoff weight of 6,000 pounds or less. (b) A slip skid indicator. (c) A gyroscopic bank-and-pitch indicator. (d) A gyroscopic direction indicator. (e) A generator or generators able to supply all probable combinations of continuous in-flight electrical loads for required equipment and for recharging the battery. (f) For night flights— (1) An anticollision light system; (2) Instrument lights to make all instruments, switches, and gauges easily readable, the direct rays of which are shielded from the pilots' eyes; and (3) A flashlight having at least two size “D” cells or equivalent. (g) For the purpose of paragraph (e) of this section, a continuous in-flight electrical load includes one that draws current continuously during flight, such as radio equipment and electrically driven instruments and lights, but does not in

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 14:§ 135.159