Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00187:reg:8:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00187
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 7/8)
Character Range: 286504–289205

fitted to, or carried on, an aircraft for a flight.
       (2) Any equipment that is for a pilot's manual or visual use in, or from, the cockpit must be visible to, and usable by, the pilot from the pilot's seat in the aircraft.
       (3) Emergency equipment that is required under this Chapter to be fitted to, or carried on, an aircraft for a flight must be easily accessible for immediate use in the event of an emergency.

26.04 Serviceability of equipment
        Any equipment required by this Chapter to be fitted to, or carried on, an aircraft for a flight must be operative unless:
(a) another section of this Chapter provides otherwise; or
       Note   A minimum equipment list (a MEL), approved under regulation 91.935, can only permit equipment required to be fitted to, or carried on, an aircraft by this Chapter, to be unserviceable within the limits of the requirements contained in this Chapter. For example, section 26.26 contains an allowable time period of 72 hours related to flights with inoperative altitude alerting equipment. An MEL would not be approved if it contained a maximum time period for altitude alerting equipment to be inoperative that was greater than the time period specified by either a master minimum equipment list (MMEL) or the legislation.
(b) the equipment:
           (i) is inoperative because of a defect that has been approved as a permissible unserviceability for the aircraft for the flight; and
           (ii) is fitted or carried in accordance with the permissible unserviceability.

Division 26.3 Flight instruments — aeroplanes

26.05 Application
        This Division applies to an aeroplane, subject to Division 26.5.

26.06 Aeroplane VFR flight by day
       (1) Subject to subsection (2), an aeroplane for a VFR flight by day must be fitted with equipment for measuring and displaying the following flight information:
(a) indicated airspeed;
(b) pressure altitude;
(c) magnetic heading;
(d) time;
(e) Mach number — but only for an aeroplane with operating limitations expressed in terms of Mach number;
(f) turn and slip — but only for an aeroplane conducting an aerial work operation;
(g) outside air temperature — but only for an aeroplane conducting an aerial work operation from an aerodrome at which ambient air temperature is not available from ground-based instruments.
       (2) For subsection (1), the equipment for measuring and displaying the flight information mentioned in column 1 of an item in Table 26.06 (2) must meet the requirements mentioned in column 2 of the item.

Table 26.06 (2) – Requirements for equipment – aeroplane VFR flight by day

      Column 1            Column 2
Item  Flight information  Requirements