EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT - DITCHING § 25.1415 Ditching Equipment.


(a) Ditching equipment used in airplanes to be certificated for ditching under Sec. 25.801, and required by the operating rules of this chapter, must meet the requirements of this section.


(b) Each life raft and each life preserver must be approved. In addition—


(1) Unless excess rafts of enough capacity are provided, the buoyancy and seating capacity beyond the rated capacity of the rafts must accommodate all occupants of the airplane in the event of a loss of one raft of the largest rated capacity; and


(2) Each raft must have a trailing line, and must have a


static line designed to hold the raft near the airplane but to release it if the airplane becomes totally submerged.


(c) Approved survival equipment must be attached to each life raft.


[(d) There must be an approved survival type emergency locator transmitter for use in one life raft.]


(e) For airplanes not certificated for ditching under Sec. 25.801 and not having approved life preservers, there must be an approved flotation means for each occupant. This means must be within easy reach of each seated occupant and must be readily removable from the airplane.


FAR §135.167 Emergency equipment: Extended overwater operations.


(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 life rafts 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 CO2 bottle for emergency inflation; (x) One inflation pump; (xi) Two oars; (xii) One 75-foot retaining line; (xiii) One magnetic compass; (xiv) One dye marker;


(xv) One flashlight having at least two size “D” cells or equivalent;


(xvi) A 2-day supply of emergency food rations supplying at least 1,000 calories per day for each person;


(xvii) For each two persons the raft is rated to carry, two pints of water or one sea water desalting kit;


(xviii) One fishing kit; and


(xix) One book on survival appropriate for the area in which the aircraft is operated.


(c) No person may operate an airplane in extended overwater operations unless there is attached to one of the life rafts required by paragraph (a) of this section, an approved survival type emergency locator transmitter. Batteries used in this transmitter must be replaced (or recharged, if the batteries are rechargeable) when the transmitter has been in use for more than 1 cumulative hour, or, when 50 percent of their useful life (or for rechargeable batteries, 50 percent of their useful life of charge) has expired, as established by the transmitter manufacturer under its approval. The new expiration date for replacing (or recharging) the battery must be legibly marked on the outside of the transmitter. The battery useful life (or useful life of charge) requirements of this paragraph do not apply to batteries (such as water-activated batteries) that are essentially unaffected during probable storage intervals.


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