UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 Survival equipment

ADDITIONAL SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT

(a)The following additional survival equipment should be carried when required:

(1)500 ml of water for each 4, or fraction of 4, persons on board;

(2)one knife;

(3)first-aid equipment; and

(4)one set of air/ground codes.

(b)If any item of equipment contained in the above list is already carried on board the VCA in accordance with another requirement, there is no need for the list to be duplicated.

SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT The signalling equipment for making distress signals is described in ICAO Annex 2 ‘Rules of the Air’.

AREAS WHERE SEARCH AND RESCUE WOULD BE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT The phrase ‘areas in which search and rescue would be particularly difficult’ means:

(a)areas so designated by the authority responsible for managing search and rescue; or

(b)areas that are largely uninhabited and where:

(1)the authority referred to in point (a) has not published any information to confirm whether search and rescue would or would not be particularly difficult; and

(2)the authority referred to in point (a) does not, as a matter of policy, designate areas as being particularly difficult for search and rescue.