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The Civil Aviation (Operation of Aircraft-General Aviation Aeroplanes) Regulations, 2018
65. Aeroplanes on long-range over-water flights
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
65. Aeroplanes on long-range over-water flights
(1)The operator of an aeroplane operated on an extended flight over water shall determine the risks to survival of the occupants of the aeroplane in the event of a ditching.(2)The operator shall take into account the operating environment and conditions such as, but not limited to, sea state and sea and air temperatures, the distance from land suitable for making an emergency landing, and the availability of search and rescue facilities.(3)Based upon the assessment of the risks in subregulation (2), the operator shall, in addition to the equipment required in regulation 20, ensure that the aeroplane is appropriately equipped with—(a)life-saving rafts in sufficient numbers to carry all persons on board, stowed so as to facilitate their ready use in emergency, provided with such lifesaving equipment, including means of sustaining life, as is appropriate to the flight to be undertaken; and(b)life jackets and equivalent individual flotation device, when carried in accordance with regulation 20, shall be equippedwith a means of electric illumination for the purpose of facilitating the location of persons, except where the requirement of regulation 20 is met by the provision of individual flotation devices other than life jackets.(4)Aeroplanes for which the individual certificate of airworthiness was first issued before the 1st January 1990 shall—(a)be equipped with a device to provide positive warning to the flight crew of any dangerous loss of pressurization for pressurized aeroplanes intended to be operated at flight altitudes at which the atmospheric pressure is less than 376 hPa;(b)be equipped with oxygen storage and dispensing apparatus capable of storing and dispensing the oxygen supplies required in regulation 9 for aeroplanes intended to be operated at flight altitudes at which the atmospheric pressure is less than 700 hPa in personnel compartments;(c)be operated at flight altitudes at which the atmospheric pressure is less than 700 hPa but which is provided with means of maintaining pressures greater than 700 hPa in personnel; and(d)have compartments to be provided with oxygen storage and dispensing apparatus capable of storing and dispensing the oxygen supplies required in regulation 9.