Emergency equipment: Extended overwater operations.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 14

(a) Except where the Administrator, by amending the operations specifications of the certificate holder, requires the carriage of all or any specific items of the equipment listed below for any overwater operation, or, upon application of the certificate holder, the Administrator allows deviation for a particular extended overwater operation, no person may operate an aircraft in extended overwater operations unless it carries, installed in conspicuously marked locations easily accessible to the occupants if a ditching occurs, the following equipment: (1) An approved life preserver equipped with an approved survivor locator light for each occupant of the aircraft. The life preserver must be easily accessible to each seated occupant. (2) Enough approved liferafts of a rated capacity and buoyancy to accommodate the occupants of the aircraft. (b) Each liferaft required by paragraph (a) of this section must be equipped with or contain at least the following: (1) One approved survivor locator light. (2) One approved pyrotechnic signaling device. (3) Either— (i) One survival kit, appropriately equipped for the route to be flown; or (ii) One canopy (for sail, sunshade, or rain catcher); (iii) One radar reflector; (iv) One liferaft repair kit; (v) One bailing bucket; (vi) One signaling mirror; (vii) One police whistle; (viii) One raft knife; (ix) One CO (x) One inflation pump; (xi) Two oars; (xii) One 75-foot retaining line; (xiii) One magnetic compass; (xiv) One dye marker; (xv) One

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 14:§ 135.167