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a life jacket before the commencement of the evacuation and shall wear the jacket when leaving the aircraft.

      18 All the occupants shall have their safety belts and shoulder harnesses (where fitted) fastened at the time of the simulated ditching.

      19 The demonstration shall include the removal of the rafts and accessories from the aircraft but the rafts and accessory packs need not be opened.
Appendix III

Designated remote areas

Note 1   Flight through corridors shall be made within sight of the highway concerned but in no case more than five miles therefrom.
Note 2   Australian administered islands adjacent to the Remote Area between Talgarno and Cairns are part of the Designated Remote Area.

Note 3   Mainland within 50 n.m. of Darwin excluded from Designated Remote Area.

Appendix IV

Crew member emergency procedures proficiency test

       The proficiency test shall cover all of those emergency procedures that the crew member may be called upon to perform. It shall include at least the following.

1 Practical operation

      1.1 Emergency evacuation procedures. Operation and use of each type of normal and emergency exit, evacuation slide and escape rope and procedures for evacuation.

      1.2 Fire extinguishing. Method of operation of each type of portable fire extinguisher.

      1.3 Oxygen. Methods of use of fixed and portable oxygen equipment.

      1.3A Portable megaphones. Method of operation of each type of portable megaphone.

      1.4 Ditching procedures, where applicable:
(a) fitting and inflation of life jackets and location and use of equipment stowed as part of the life jacket. Additionally, for initial qualification each crew member shall demonstrate competency in the use of the life jacket in the water; and
(b) removal from stowage, launching and inflation of life rafts. For initial qualification each crew member shall demonstrate proficiency in his or her assigned duties. Thereafter all crew members shall be given an annual demonstration of launching and inflation and shall demonstrate competency in boarding procedures and the use of the life raft and its equipment; and
(c) use of signalling equipment; and
(d) use of first aid kits.
      1.5 Subject to the approval of CASA, realistic mock-ups of emergency equipment may be used. Where the replacing of a particular item of equipment such as rafts, exits, slides, etc., would involve an excessive amount of maintenance action an operator may, subject to the approval of CASA, provide a group demonstration of the operation of the equipment. In this event the group demonstration must be supported by an approved pictorial presentation. Each crew member must satisfy the person certifying to competency that he has an adequate knowledge of the emergency operation of equipment and, if necessary, that he has physically assessed the difficulty involved in operating it.
      1.6 When operation