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BOP.BAS.345 Life-saving and signalling equipment – Search and rescue difficulties

Regulation (EU) 2018/395

Balloons operated over areas in which search and rescue (SAR) would be especially difficult shall be equipped with such life-saving and signalling equipment as appropriate to the area overflown.

AMC1 BOP.BAS.345 Life-saving and signalling equipment – Search and rescue difficulties

ED Decision 2018/004/R

General

Balloons operated across land areas in which search and rescue would be especially difficult should be equipped with the following:

  1. at least one ELT or a PLB;
  2. signalling equipment for making distress signals; and
  3. additional survival equipment adequate for the route to be flown taking account of the number of persons on board.

AMC2 BOP.BAS.345 Life-saving and signalling equipment – Search and rescue difficulties

ED Decision 2018/004/R

ADDITIONAL SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT

  1. The following additional survival equipment should be carried:
    1. 500 ml of water for each four, or fraction of four, persons on board;
    2. one knife; and
    3. first-aid equipment.
  2. If any item of equipment in (a) is already carried on board in accordance with other requirements, the carriage does not need to be duplicated.

GM1 BOP.BAS.345 Life-saving and signalling equipment – Search and rescue difficulties

ED Decision 2018/004/R

SIGNALS

The distress signals are described in Regulation (EU) No 923/20121).

GM2 BOP.BAS.345 Life-saving and signalling equipment – Search and rescue difficulties

ED Decision 2018/004/R

AREAS IN WHICH SEARCH AND RESCUE WOULD BE ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT

The expression ‘areas in which search and rescue would be especially difficult’ means:

  1. areas so designated by the authority responsible for managing search and rescue; or
  2. areas that are largely uninhabited and where the authority referred to in (a):
    1. has not published any information to confirm whether search and rescue would be or would not be especially difficult; and
    2. does not, as a matter of policy, designate areas as being especially difficult for search and rescue.

BOP.BAS.350 Miscellaneous equipment

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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 of 26 September 2012 laying down the common rules of the air and operational provisions regarding services and procedures in air navigation and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011 and Regulations (EC) No 1265/2007, (EC) No 1794/2006, (EC) No 730/2006, (EC) No 1033/2006 and (EU) No 255/2010 (OJ L 281, 13.12.2012, p. 1).
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