Peter wrote:
Please enlighten us all, @Airborne_Again
Go to the easa web page (www.easa.europa.eu). Click “regulations”. Scroll to the section you want and click “Show regulations”. If there is an “easy access” document, that’s what you want as it is a consolidated version including the AMC/GM. If not, look for a “consolidated” document. Then you must look separately at the AMC/GM. If there is neither, then you have to look at the individual EU directives, which are listed.
This is essentially what I wrote already a year ago in the thread you referred to (except that there were no “easy access” documents at that time).
Of course you have to know what you are looking for (part-NCO, part-FCL etc.)
The problem is more understanding the individual regulations. In my experience, the more recent the better. Part-NCO is considerably better than part-FCL or part-M.
Peter wrote:
Would a single 4-person raft meet this regulation?
No, because it is not an “individual floatation device”.
I think you are looking in the wrong places…
Please enlighten us all, @Airborne_Again
A search for
where to find easa regs
found at least 3 past threads on this topic, none of which really answered the question!
I merged them into this one and maybe you can update that, with instructions on how to look for stuff to do with FCL, private operations, equipment carriage for VFR and IFR – all the usual stuff.
Would a single 4-person raft meet this regulation?
Peter wrote:
I have no idea whether jackets or a raft are legally mandatory for private flying.
The regs change so often, are buried in 10,000 pages of stuff, and are stored on so many EU websites carrying different versions of each reg, that I have long given up trying to follow itI think you are looking in the wrong places…
I have no idea whether jackets or a raft are legally mandatory for private flying. The regs change so often, are buried in 10,000 pages of stuff, and are stored on so many EU websites carrying different versions of each reg, that I have long given up trying to follow it
When I say it is mandatory I mean mandatory for survival should you ditch. At low level up there in Scotland you are out of VHF contact most of the time so you may not get picked up for hours or days by which time you will be fully bio-degraded by the antibiotics they put in the fish farms, never mind the fish themselves
I will put in a note about this. Thanks for pointing it out.
Peter_Mundy wrote:
I would certainly agree with you there – if you have it why not use it?
very confident in my swimming skills :-)
LFHNflightstudent wrote:
In summer I rarely take a life raft for longer stretches – probably dumb and maybe I should since I have one…
I would certainly agree with you there – if you have it why not use it?
Great report love the pictures and the narrative. Have never flown to Scotland but think I will now. One question, you mention you need a life raft for a 50NM stretch over open water, surely one only needs life jackets – the raft for non commercial ops is at the pilots discretion (believe the text says now if the PIC deems necessary). In summer I rarely take a life raft for longer stretches – probably dumb and maybe I should since I have one…
Great report Peter. Thanks for spending the time putting it all together.