GEN 1.5 AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS, EQUIPMENT AND FLIGHT DOCUMENTS

 

1 CURAÇAO

1.1 General

 
Commercial air transport aircraft operating in Dutch Caribbean territory must adhere to the provisions of ICAO Annex 6 - Operation of Aircraft, Part I - International Commercial Air Transport - Aeroplanes, Chapter 6 (Aeroplane Instruments, Equipment and Flight Documents) and Chapter 7 (Aeroplane Communication and Navigation Equipment).
 
 

1.2 Special Equipment to be Carried

 
In addition to the above-mentioned, all aircraft operating within the Curaçao FIR, whereby the territory of the Dutch Caribbean is over flown, must adhere to the provisions detailed below in accordance with the type of flight.
 
1.2.1. Types of flight
  1. Transiting
    1. Flights transiting the Curaçao FIR, whereby the territory of the Dutch Caribbean is over flown.
    2. Flights to and from the territory of the Dutch Caribbean, whereby a maximum of two landings are made.
  1. Internal
    1. Flights conducted between the BES Islands..
 
 

1.3 Equipment to be carried by all types of flights

 
Radio and navigation equipment to be carried within the Curaçao FIR, shall comply with the provisions of ICAO Annex 6 Volume 1 and 2, chapter 7 and article 14 of the Civil Aviation (air Navigation) Regulations, 1995 as amended.
 
 

1.4 Equipment to be carried on all internal and on certain flights

 
On all internal flights and on flights with single-engine and multi-engine aircraft which are not capable of maintaining the prescribed minimum safe altitude in the event of engine failure, shall comply with the provisions of ICAO Annex 7 Chapter 7.8 and for Curaçao Civil Aviation Regulations CARNA Part 7, and the following emergency equipment shall be carried.
 
1.4.1. EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT: ALL AIRCRAFT
Each item of emergency and flotation equipment shall be:
  1. Readily accessible to the crew and with regard to equipment located in the passenger compartment, to passengers without appreciable time for preparatory procedures;
  2. Clearly identified and clearly marked to indicate its method of operation;
  3. Marked as to date of last inspection; and
  4. Marked as to contents when carried in a compartment or container.
 
1.4.2. FIRST AID KIT
  1.  No person may operate an aircraft unless it is equipped with at least the minimum number of accessible first aid kits and contents specified as follows:
     
    Number of Passenger seats installed Number of First-aid kits required
    0 to 99 1
    100 to 199 2
    200 to 299 3
    300 and more 4

     

The installed first aid kit shall contain the minimum contents specified by the Director.

Note: See CARNA Part 7 IS: 7.8.1.2 to determine the required contents of the first aid kit.
 
1.4.3. MEDICAL KIT-COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT
  1. No person may operate an aircraft authorized to carry more than 250 passengers unless it has a properly installed medical kit for the use of the medical doctors or other qualified persons in treating in-flight medical emergencies.
  2. The installed medical kit shall contain the minimum contents specified in CARNA Part 7 IS: 7.8.1.3.
 
1.4.4. PORTABLE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
  1. No person may operate an aircraft unless it has the minimum number of portable fire extinguishers of a type which, when discharged, will not cause dangerous contamination of the air within the aeroplane. The type and quantity of extinguishing agent shall be suitable for the kinds of fires likely to occur in the compartment where the extinguisher is intended to be used.

    Note: For passenger compartments, the extinguisher shall be designed to minimise the hazard of toxic gas concentrations.
     
  2. The minimum number of portable fire extinguishers shall not be less than:
    1. One properly installed in the pilot’s compartment; and 
    2. At least one portable fire extinguisher shall be provided and conveniently located for use in each Class E cargo compartment that is accessible to crew members during flight, and at least one shall be located in each upper and lower lobe galley.
    3. One properly installed in each passenger compartment that is separate from the pilot’s compartment and that is not readily accessible to the flight crew.

      Note: Any portable fire extinguisher so fitted in accordance with the certificate of airworthiness of an aircraft may count as one of the required extinguishers.
       
      1. At least one portable fire extinguisher shall be conveniently located in the passenger compartment of aeroplanes having a  passenger seating capacity of 30 or  less. For each aeroplane having a passenger seating capacity of more than 30, there shall be at least the following number of portable fire extinguishers conveniently located and uniformly distributed throughout the compartment.
         

        Minimum Number of Hand Fire Extinguishers
        Passenger Seating Capacity
        30 through 60 2
        61 through 200 3
        201 through 300 4
        301 through 400 5
        401 through 500 6
        501 through 600 7
        601 or more 8

         
 
1.4.5.  LAVATORY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
  1. No person may operate a passenger carrying aircraft of more than 5700 kg maximum certificated take-off mass unless each lavatory is equipped with a built-in fire extinguisher for the wastepaper disposal.
  2. This built-in fire extinguisher must be designed to discharge automatically into each disposal receptacle upon the occurrence of a fire in the receptacle.
 
1.4.6. LAVATORY SMOKE DETECTOR
No person may operate a passenger carrying aircraft of more than 5700 kg maximum certificated take-off mass unless each lavatory in the aeroplane is equipped with a smoke detector system that provides:
  1. A warning light in the flight deck; or
  2. A warning light or audio warning in the passenger cabin, taking into account the position of the cabin attendants during various phases of flight.
 
1.4.7. CRASH AXE -COMMERCIAL AIRTRANSPORT
No person may operate an aircraft with a maximum certificated take-off mass of more than 5700 kg unless it is equipped with a crash axe appropriate for effective use in that aircraft.
 
1.4.8. FLASHLIGHTS
  1. No person may operate a passenger carrying aircraft unless the aircraft is equipped with flashlight stowage provisions that are accessible from each required flight attendant seat.
  2. No person may operate a passenger carrying aircraft unless each flight attendant required to be on board the aircraft has a flashlight readily available for use
 
1.4.9. OXYGEN STORAGE AND DISPENSINGAPPARATUS
  1. All aircraft intended to be operated at altitudes requiring the use of supplemental oxygen shall be equipped with adequate oxygen storage and dispensing apparatus.
  2. The oxygen apparatus, the minimum rate of oxygen flow and the supply of oxygen shall meet applicable technical standards for type certification in the transport category.
  3. No AOC holder may operate an aeroplane at altitudes above 10000 feet unless it is equipped with oxygen masks, located so as to be within the immediate reach of flight crew members while at their assigned duty station.
  4. No person may operate a pressurized aeroplane at altitudes above 25000 feet unless:
    1. Flight crew member oxygen masks are of a quick donning type;
    2. Sufficient spare outlets and masks and/or sufficient portable oxygen units with masks are distributed evenly throughout the cabin to ensure immediate availability of oxygen to each required cabin crew member regardless of his location at the time of cabin pressurisation failure; and
    3. An oxygen-dispensing unit connected to oxygen supply terminals is installed so as to be automatically deployed and immediately available to each occupant, wherever seated.
    4. The total number of dispensing units and outlets shall exceed the number of seats by at least 10%. The extra units are to be evenly distributed throughout the cabin.
  5. The amount of supplemental oxygen for sustenance required for a particular operation shall be determined on the basis of flight altitudes and flight duration, consistent with the operating procedures established for each operation in the Operations Manual and with the routes to be flown, and with the emergency procedures specified in the Operations Manual.

    Note: See CARNA Part 7 IS: 7.8.1.9 to determine the amount of supplemental oxygen needed for non-pressurized and pressurized aircraft.
 
1.4.10. INDIVIDUAL FLOTATION DEVICES
  1. No person may operate an aircraft on flights over water, or a seaplane on any flight, unless it is equipped with one life jacket or equivalent individual flotation device for each person on board.
  2. All life jackets or equivalent individual flotation devices shall be stowed in a position easily accessible from the seat or berth of the person for whose use it is provided.
  3. For all flights in which a survival raft is required, each individual flotation device shall be fitted with an approved survivor locator light.
 
1.4.11. LIFE RAFTS
  1. No person may operate an aircraft other than designated in paragraph (a) unless it is equipped with life rafts in sufficient number to accommodate all of the persons on board in the event of ditching when the route of flight will be overwater for:
    1. 120 minutes at cruising speed or 400 NM (700 km), whichever is lesser, for aeroplanes capable of continuing the flight to an airport suitable for making an emergency landing with the critical power unit(s) becoming inoperative at any point along the route or planned diversions; or
    2. 30 minutes at cruising speed or 100 NM (185 km), whichever is lesser, for all other aeroplanes.
  2. For commercial air transport passenger-carrying operations in aircraft of more than 5700 kg, the buoyancy and seating capacity of the rafts must accommodate all occupants of the aircraft in the event of a loss of one raft of the largest rated capacity.
  3. For commercial air transport passenger-carrying operations in helicopters, 50 % of all required rafts (where the quantity is two or more) will have a means of deployment by remote control.
  4. The required life rafts and associated equipment must be easily accessible in the event of ditching without appreciable time for preparatory procedures. This equipment must be installed in conspicuously marked, approved locations.
  5. Life rafts which are not deployable by remote control and which have a mass of more than 40 kg shall be equipped with some means of mechanically assisted deployment.
 
1.4.12. SURVIVAL KIT
  1. No person may operate an aircraft over designated land areas where search and rescue would be especially difficult without carrying life saving equipment including means of sustaining life.
  2. No person may operate over water at distances that require the carriage of life rafts unless each raft is equipped with life saving equipment including means of sustaining life.
  3. The survival kit shall contain the minimum contents specified by the Director.
 
1.4.13. DEVICES FOR EMERGENCY SIGNALING
  1. No person may operate an aircraft over designated land areas where search and rescue would be especially difficult without carrying devices to make the necessary ground-to-air emergency signals to facilitate rescue.
  2. No person may operate over water at a distance that requires the carriage of life rafts unless each raft contains the equipment for making the necessary pyrotechnical distress signals.
  3. The devices for emergency signalling shall be acceptable to the Director.
 
1.4.14. EMERGENCY LOCATOR TRANSMITTER (ELT)
  1. No person may operate an aircraft over water at distances that require the carriage of life rafts unless that aircraft is equipped with at least two ELT’s, one of which shall be an automatically activated ELT.
  2. No person may operate an aircraft over designated land areas where search and rescue would be especially difficult unless it is equipped with at least one automatically activated ELT.
  3. No person may operate an aircraft over water at distances that require the carriage of life rafts unless it is equipped with a survival type ELT for the life raft. In situations requiring two or more life rafts, only two survival-type ELT’s are required to be carried on the aircraft.
  4. The expiration date for a replacement or recharged ELT battery shall be legibly marked on the outside of the transmitter. Batteries used in ELT’s shall be replaced (or recharged if the battery is rechargeable) when:
    1. The transmitter has been in use for more than one cumulative hour; or
    2. 50 percent of their useful life (or for rechargeable batteries, 50 percent of their useful life of charge) has expired.

      Note: The battery useful life (or useful life of charge) requirements do not apply to batteries (such as water-activated batteries) that are essentially unaffected during probable storage intervals.
 
1.4.15. HELICOPTER EMERGENCY FLOTATION MEANS
No person may operate a helicopter intentionally over water unless it has a properly installed permanent or rapidly deployable means of floatation to ensure a safe ditching of the helicopter when the flight is:
  1. More than 10 minutes from shore, in the case of helicopters capable of sustained flight with one engine inoperative; or
  2. Beyond autorotational or gliding distance to shore, in the case of single-engine helicopters.
 
1.4.16. MARKING OF BREAK-INPOINTS
No person may operate an aircraft for which areas of the fuselage suitable for break-in for rescue in an emergency are marked unless those markings correspond to the following figure and meet the following requirements:
  1. The colour of the markings shall be red or yellow, and if necessary, they shall be outlined in white to contrast with the background; and
  2. If the corner markings are more than 2 m apart, intermediate lines 9 cm x 3 cm shall be inserted so that there is no more than2 m between adjacent markings.

Note: This regulation does not require any aircraft to have break-in areas.
 
1.4.17. FIRST AID OXYGEN DISPENSING UNITS
  1. No AOC holder may conduct a passenger carrying operation in a pressurized aeroplane unless it is equipped with:
    1. Undiluted first-aid oxygen for passengers who, for physiological reasons, may require oxygen following a cabin depressurization; and
    2. When a cabin crewmember is carried, a sufficient number of dispensing units, but in no case less than two, with a means for cabin crew to use the supply.
  2. The amount of first-aid oxygen required in paragraph (a) for a particular operation and route shall be determined on the basis of:
    1. Flight duration after cabin depressurisation at cabin altitudes of more than 8000 feet;
    2. An average flow rate of at least 3 litres Standard Temperature Pressure Dry/minute/person; and
    3. At least 2% of the passengers carried, but in no case for less than one person.