Navigate / EASA

AMC2 BOP.BAS.340 Life-saving and signalling equipment – Flights over water

ED Decision 2018/004/R

EQUIPMENT

Based on the risk assessment, the pilot-in-command should determine the carriage of:

(a)     a life jacket or equivalent individual flotation device for each person on board that should:

(1)     be worn or stowed in a position that is readily accessible from the station of the person for whose use it is provided; and

(2)     be equipped with a means of electric illumination for the purpose of facilitating the location of persons;

(b)     when carrying up to six persons, an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) or a personal locator beacon (PLB), carried by a crew member or a passenger, capable of transmitting simultaneously on 121.5 and 406 MHz;

(c)      when carrying more than six persons, an ELT capable of transmitting simultaneously on 121.5 and 406 MHz; and

(d)     signalling equipment for making distress signals.