Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00332:reg:3:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00332
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 8/12)
Character Range: 224914–227505

emergency, an immediate initiation of a response to the emergency by a search and rescue body — 25 nautical miles; or
 (c) for a single‑engine rotorcraft to which paragraph (b) does not apply — the distance the rotorcraft would fly in 5 minutes at the normal cruising speed, for the flight, in still air.
 (2) Despite subsection (1), this section does not apply to a flight of a rotorcraft if:
 (a) the rotorcraft has a maximum operational passenger seat configuration of not more than 5; and
 (b) the rotorcraft will be flown less than 10 nautical miles over water from land; and
 (c) the rotorcraft has operational control that would enable, in the event of an emergency, an immediate initiation of a response to the emergency by a search and rescue body.
  Life raft carriage requirements
 (3) For a flight of a rotorcraft with not more than 11 persons onboard the rotorcraft, life raft equipment must be carried in accordance with the following requirements:
 (a) the rotorcraft must carry at least 1 life raft that has the capacity to provide a place for each person on board the rotorcraft;
 (b) each life raft carried on the rotorcraft must be equipped with:
 (i) a survivor locator light; and
 (ii) a survival ELT;
 (c) each life raft must be stowed in a manner so that it can be readily deployed if the rotorcraft must ditch;
 (d) if a life raft is stowed in a compartment or container, the compartment or container must be conspicuously marked as containing the life raft.
 (4) For a flight of a rotorcraft with more than 11 persons onboard the rotorcraft, life raft equipment must be carried in accordance with the following requirements:
 (a) the rotorcraft must carry at least 2 life rafts that collectively have the capacity to provide a place for each person on board the rotorcraft;
 (b) there must be a place on a life raft for each person, other than an infant, on board the rotorcraft:
 (i) assuming the life raft with the greatest rated-capacity cannot be used; and
 (ii) based on the overload capacity of the other life rafts;
 (c) for a rotorcraft which, on or after 1 January 1991, was first issued with a certificate of airworthiness, or an authorisation (however described) equivalent to a certificate of airworthiness issued by the NAA of a Contracting State.
 (i) at least 50% of the life rafts carried on the rotorcraft must be deployable by remote control; and
 (ii) if a life raft is not deployable by remote control and weighs more than 40 kg — the life raft must be equipped with a means of mechanically-assisted deployment;
 (d) each life raft carried on the