Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00332:reg:3:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00332
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 9/12)
Character Range: 227284–229903

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 rotorcraft must be equipped with:
 (i) a survivor locator light; and
 (ii) a survival ELT;
 (e) each life raft must be stowed in a manner so that it can be readily deployed if the rotorcraft must ditch;
 (f) if a life raft is stowed in a compartment or container, the compartment or container must be conspicuously marked as containing the life raft.
  Transitional life raft carriage requirements
 (5) Until immediately before 2 December 2023, a rotorcraft for a flight must be fitted with, or carry, life rafts in accordance with:
 (a) regulation 252 of CAR, and subsection 5 of Civil Aviation Order 20.11. as it applies to life rafts, as each of those provisions is in force immediately before the commencement of this instrument; or
 (b) this section.
 (6) With effect from the beginning of 2 December 2023, a rotorcraft must be fitted with, or carry, life rafts in accordance with this section.

11.51  Emergency flotation equipment
 (1) This section applies to a flight of a rotorcraft, other than a rotorcraft designed to take-off from and land on water, which is a passenger transport operation.
Note: An example of a rotorcraft designed to take-off from, and land on, water is a rotorcraft fitted with fixed floats.
 (2) Subject to subsection (3), the rotorcraft must be fitted with emergency flotation equipment if one or more of the following applies to the flight:
 (a) the flight:
 (i) is to, or from, a helideck on a vessel or other offshore facility; and
 (ii) will have an approach and landing or baulked landing stage, or a take‑off and initial climb stage, over water;
 (b) the rotorcraft will be flown further over water from land than the distance in which, with 1 engine inoperative, the rotorcraft could reach a suitable forced landing area, for the flight, on land.
Note: For example, if a flight of a rotorcraft is over solid ice that is of suitable density to permit a safe rejected take-off, or a suitable forced landing or an emergency landing, of the rotorcraft, the rotorcraft is not required to be fitted with emergency flotation equipment.
 (3) Despite paragraph (2)(b), the flight over water is permitted without having to fit emergency flotation equipment if:
 (a) it is in a rotorcraft access lane mentioned in the AIP; or
 (b) both:
 (i) it is to comply with an ATC instruction; and
 (ii) it is for no longer than 2 minutes at normal cruising speed in still air.