Navigate / EASA

AMC2 SAO.IDE.120 Life-saving and signalling equipment – flights over water

ED Decision 2019/001/R

SIGNALLING AND LIFE-SAVING 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 seat 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)     an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) or a personal locator beacon (PLB), capable of transmitting simultaneously at 121.5 and 406 MHz, or an equivalent registered emergency locator, carried by the pilot-in-command, any other crew member or a passenger; and

(c)      signalling equipment for making distress signals.