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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–19 Edition) 

§ 135.167 

§ 135.167

Emergency equipment: Ex-

tended overwater operations. 

(a) Except where the Administrator, 

by amending the operations specifica-
tions of the certificate holder, requires 
the carriage of all or any specific items 
of the equipment listed below for any 
overwater operation, or, upon applica-
tion of the certificate holder, the Ad-
ministrator allows deviation for a par-
ticular extended overwater operation, 
no person may operate an aircraft in 
extended overwater operations unless 
it carries, installed in conspicuously 
marked locations easily accessible to 
the occupants if a ditching occurs, the 
following equipment: 

(1) An approved life preserver 

equipped with an approved survivor lo-
cator light for each occupant of the 
aircraft. The life preserver must be eas-
ily accessible to each seated occupant. 

(2) Enough approved liferafts of a 

rated capacity and buoyancy to accom-
modate the occupants of the aircraft. 

(b) Each liferaft required by para-

graph (a) of this section must be 
equipped with or contain at least the 
following: 

(1) One approved survivor locator 

light. 

(2) One approved pyrotechnic sig-

naling device. 

(3) Either— 
(i) One survival kit, appropriately 

equipped for the route to be flown; or 

(ii) One canopy (for sail, sunshade, or 

rain catcher); 

(iii) One radar reflector; 
(iv) One liferaft repair kit; 
(v) One bailing bucket; 
(vi) One signaling mirror; 
(vii) One police whistle; 
(viii) One raft knife; 
(ix) One CO

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bottle for emergency in-

flation; 

(x) One inflation pump; 
(xi) Two oars; 
(xii) One 75-foot retaining line; 
(xiii) One magnetic compass; 
(xiv) One dye marker; 
(xv) One flashlight having at least 

two size ‘‘D’’ cells or equivalent; 

(xvi) A 2-day supply of emergency 

food rations supplying at least 1,000 
calories per day for each person; 

(xvii) For each two persons the raft is 

rated to carry, two pints of water or 
one sea water desalting kit; 

(xviii) One fishing kit; and 
(xix) One book on survival appro-

priate for the area in which the air-
craft is operated. 

(c) No person may operate an air-

plane in extended overwater operations 
unless there is attached to one of the 
life rafts required by paragraph (a) of 
this section, an approved survival type 
emergency locator transmitter. Bat-
teries used in this transmitter must be 
replaced (or recharged, if the batteries 
are rechargeable) when the transmitter 
has been in use for more than 1 cumu-
lative hour, or, when 50 percent of their 
useful life (or for rechargeable bat-
teries, 50 percent of their useful life of 
charge) has expired, as established by 
the transmitter manufacturer under its 
approval. The new expiration date for 
replacing (or recharging) the battery 
must be legibly marked on the outside 
of the transmitter. The battery useful 
life (or useful life of charge) require-
ments of this paragraph do not apply 
to batteries (such as water-activated 
batteries) that are essentially unaf-
fected during probable storage inter-
vals. 

[Doc. No. 16097, 43 FR 46783, Oct. 10, 1978, as 
amended by Amdt. 135–4, 45 FR 38348, June 
30, 1980; Amdt. 135–20, 51 FR 40710, Nov. 7, 
1986; Amdt. 135–49, 59 FR 32058, June 21, 1994; 
Amdt. 135–91, 68 FR 54586, Sept. 17, 2003] 

§ 135.168

Emergency equipment: 

Overwater rotorcraft operations. 

(a) 

Definitions. 

For the purposes of 

this section, the following definitions 
apply— 

Autorotational distance 

refers to the 

distance a rotorcraft can travel in 
autorotation as described by the manu-
facturer in the approved Rotorcraft 
Flight Manual. 

Shoreline 

means that area of the land 

adjacent to the water of an ocean, sea, 
lake, pond, river, or tidal basin that is 
above the high-water mark at which a 
rotorcraft could be landed safely. This 
does not include land areas which are 
unsuitable for landing such as vertical 
cliffs or land intermittently under 
water. 

(b) 

Required equipment. 

Except when 

authorized by the certificate holder’s 
operations specifications, or when nec-
essary only for takeoff or landing, no 

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