Singapore legislation
Schedule 3
of Air Navigation (135 — Commercial Air Transport by Helicopters and Small Aeroplanes) Regulations 2018
Schedule 3
Emergency equipment
THIRD SCHEDULERegulations 105(2) and 107(4)Emergency equipmentThis Schedule specifies the emergency equipment, mentioned in Division 6, to be carried on a relevant aircraft.Life rafts1.—
A relevant aircraft must be equipped with a number of life rafts appropriate to the area that the flight covers.(2) A life raft must contain the following equipment:
a means of maintaining buoyancy;
a sea anchor;
a lifeline and a means of attaching one life raft to another;
if the life raft has a capacity of 6 or less, paddles or another means of propulsion;[S 214/2020 wef 01/04/2020](e)a canopy to protect the occupants;
a life raft repair kit;
a bailing bucket;
an inflation pump;
[Deleted by S 214/2020 wef 01/04/2020](j)a raft knife;
a life raft survival pack that is equipped in accordance with paragraph 2.Life rafts survival pack
2. A life raft survival pack must contain the following equipment:
an independent waterproof portable light;[S 214/2020 wef 01/04/2020](b)marine type pyrotechnic distress signals;
a means of making sea water drinkable;
for every 4 persons the life raft is designed to carry;
any readily distributable energy supplement with an energy value of about 400 kJ;
one litre of fresh water in durable containers, of which a proportion may be provided by the means described in sub‑paragraph (c);
first-aid equipment;
a signalling mirror;
a whistle;
a dye marker;
[Deleted by S 214/2020 wef 01/04/2020](j)a book on survival appropriate for the area over which the aircraft is operated.Survival equipment
3. Where a relevant aircraft is required to carry survival equipment in accordance with regulation 105, the aircraft must carry the following items:
for an operation in polar conditions, the equipment required in accordance with the Air Navigation (98 — Special Operations) Regulations 2018;
for an operation in tropical conditions —
a survival ELT;
pyrotechnic distress signals;
first-aid equipment; and
for every 4 persons, any readily distributable energy supplement with an energy value of about 400 kJ and one litre of fresh water in durable containers.