Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00332:reg:8:p10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00332
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 10/12)
Character Range: 156861–159612

to a suitable forced landing area for the flight by at least the adequate vertical margin for the rotorcraft for the approach and landing, or baulked landing stage of the flight.
 (4) The rotorcraft must:
 (a) remain outside the rotorcraft's avoid area of the HV envelope; or
 (b) if it is necessary for the rotorcraft to enter the rotorcraft's avoid area of the HV envelope to avoid an accident or incident — not remain inside that area for longer than the minimum period necessary to avoid the accident or incident.

Chapter 11 — Equipment

Division 1—General

11.01  Purpose of Chapter 11 etc.
 (1) This Chapter prescribes requirements for subregulation 133.360(1) of CASR.
 (2) The requirements apply to the rotorcraft's operator, unless a provision of this Chapter states that a requirement applies to another person, in which case it applies to the operator and other person.
 (3) In addition to the operator, the requirements stated in the following provisions also apply to the pilot in command of the rotorcraft:
 (a) subsections 11.13(3) to (5);
 (b) subsection 11.15(2);
 (c) paragraph 11.36(3)(b);
 (d) subsections 11.49(3) and (4);
 (e) subsections 11.54(1) to (7);
 (f) subsections 11.55(1) and (2).
 (4) A person other than the operator, or, for the provisions mentioned in subsection (3), the pilot in command, may also be subject to a requirement stated in a provision of this Chapter, as stated in the provision setting out the requirement.
 (5) In this Chapter, unless the contrary intention appears in, or for, a particular provision:
 (a) a reference to a pilot seeing, or viewing, anything from a pilot's seat is taken to mean that the thing is seen or viewed from the pilot's normal sitting position in the seat; and
 (b) any mention of feet (or ft) in the context of an altitude is taken to mean feet above mean sea level (AMSL), unless otherwise stated.

Division 2—Approvals, visibility and inoperability

11.02  Approval of rotorcraft equipment
 (1) Before a registered rotorcraft begins a flight, any equipment that is required to be fitted to, or carried on, the rotorcraft under this Chapter must meet the requirements of, or be approved under, Part 21 of CASR.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:
 (a) an item of equipment used to display the time;
 (b) an independent portable light, for example, a flashlight or torch;
 (c) a headset;
 (d) a portable megaphone;
 (e) a sea anchor and other equipment for mooring;
 (f) a first-aid kit, an emergency medical kit or a universal precaution kit;
 (g) survival equipment, including signalling equipment.
 (3) Before a foreign-registered rotorcraft begins a flight, the equipment required by this Chapter to be fitted to, or carried on, the rotorcraft