Navigate / EASA

AMC2 SPO.IDE.A.195 Flight over water

ED Decision 2014/018/R

LIFE RAFTS AND EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING DISTRESS SIGNALS

(a)     The following should be readily available with each life-raft:

(1)     means for maintaining buoyancy;

(2)     a sea anchor;

(3)     life-lines and means of attaching one life-raft to another;

(4)     paddles for life-rafts with a capacity of six or less;

(5)     means of protecting the occupants from the elements;

(6)     a water-resistant torch;

(7)     signalling equipment to make the pyrotechnic distress signals described in ICAO Annex 2, Rules of the Air;

(8)     100 g of glucose tablets for each four, or fraction of four, persons that the life-raft is designed to carry:

(9)     at least 2 litres of drinkable water provided in durable containers or means of making sea water drinkable or a combination of both; and

(10)    first-aid equipment.

(b)     As far as practicable, items listed in (a) should be contained in a pack.

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