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Regulation OTAR Part 125 - Complex General Aviation

issued after 1 July 2008 shall be equipped with at least one automatic ELT.
Helicopters –
(e) Performance Class 1 and 2 operations –
(1) A helicopter operating in performance Class 1 or 2 shall be equipped with at least one
automatic ELT; and
(2) when flying over water as described in 125.715, with at least one automatic ELT and
one ELT(S) in a raft or life jacket.
(f) Performance Class 3 operations –
(1) A helicopter operating in performance Class 3 shall be equipped with at least one
automatic ELT; and
(2) when flying over water as described in 125.715, with at least one automatic ELT and
one ELT(S) in a raft or life jacket.
OTAR.125.710 Survival equipment
The operator shall ensure that:
(a) An aircraft shall carry survival equipment and signalling devices appropriate to the areas to be
overflown.
(b) The decision on the equipment to be carried shall be made with regard to the circumstances of
the flight; and
(c) For an aircraft operating over water, consideration of the risks to survival of the occupants of the
aircraft in the event of a ditching shall take into account, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) the operating environment; and
(2) conditions such as sea state, sea and air temperature; and
(3) the distance from land suitable for making an emergency landing; and
(4) the availability of search and rescue facilities.
(d) A record of the risk assessement carried out under (c) shall be maintained and revised as
necessary in accordance with the requirements of the operator's safety management system.
(e) The equipment carried shall include, as appropriate, the equipment specified in paragraph
125.715.
OTAR.125.715 Flights over water
The operator shall ensure that:
(a) Liferafts, lifejackets, and signalling devices required by this paragraph shall be installed in
conspicuously identified locations and easily accessible in the event of a ditching.
(b) Each lifejacket or equivalent individual flotation device, required by this paragraph shall:
(1) be equipped with a means of electric illumination for the purpose of facilitating the
location of persons, with the exception of individual flotation devices required under
125.715(d); and
(2) be stowed in a place which is easily accessible from the seat or berth of the person for
whose use it is provided.
(c) Single-engined aircraft flying over water beyond gliding or autorotational distance from land shall
be equipped with a lifejacket, or equivalent individual flotation device, for every person on board.
(d) An aircraft when taking off or landing at an aerodrome or heliport where the take-off or approach
path is so disposed over water that in the event of a mishap there would be a likelihood of a
ditching, shall be equipped with a lifejacket or equivalent individual flotation device, for every
person on board.
(e) A seaplane or amphibian aeroplane operated on water, shall be equipped with:
(1) a lifejacket, or equivalent individual flotation device, for every person on board
(2) equipment for making sound signals, as prescribed by the International Regulations for
Preventing Collisions at Sea; and
(3) one sea anchor; and
(4) equipment necessary for mooring, anchoring or manoeuvring the aircraft on water,
appropriate to the size, mass and handling characteristics of the aircraft.

Aeroplanes on extended flights over water (a distance greater than 50nm or 30 minutes at
normal cruising speed, whichever is lesser, from land suitable for making an emergency
landing)–
(f) An aeroplane flying over water shall, where indicated by the assessment in 125.710(c), be
equipped with:
(1) a lifejacket, or equivalent individual flotation device, for every person on board
(2) liferafts in sufficient numbers to carry all persons on board, stowed so as to facilitate
their ready use in emergency, provided with such life-saving equipment, including
means of sustaining life, as is appropriate to the flight to be undertaken; and
(3) equipment for making the distress signals described in the Rules of the Air.
(4) any additional equipment decided by reference to the assessment in 125. 710(c).
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