---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 29.1415"
title: "14"
number: "29.1415"
heading: "Ditching equipment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/29.1415"
---

# §29.1415. Ditching equipment.

- (a) Emergency flotation and signaling equipment required by any operating rule of this chapter must meet the requirements of this section.
- (b) Each liferaft and each life preserver must be approved. In addition—
  - (1) Provide not less than two rafts, of an approximately equal rated capacity and buoyancy to accommodate the occupants of the rotorcraft; and
  - (2) Each raft must have a trailing line, and must have a static line designed to hold the raft near the rotorcraft but to release it if the rotorcraft becomes totally submerged.
- (c) Approved survival equipment must be attached to each liferaft.
- (d) There must be an approved survival type emergency locator transmitter for use in one life raft.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Doc. No. 5084, 29 FR 16150, Dec. 3, 1964, as amended by Amdt. 29-8, 36 FR 18722, Sept. 21, 1971; Amdt. 29-19, 45 FR 38348, June 9, 1980; Amdt. 27-26, 55 FR 8005, Mar. 6, 1990; Amdt. 29-33, 59 FR 32057, June 21, 1994]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44704.

### Source

Source: Docket No. 5084, 29 FR 16150, Dec. 3, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Doc. No. 5084, 29 FR 16150, Dec. 3, 1964, as amended by Amdt. 29-8, 36 FR 18722, Sept. 21, 1971; Amdt. 29-19, 45 FR 38348, June 9, 1980; Amdt. 27-26, 55 FR 8005, Mar. 6, 1990; Amdt. 29-33, 59 FR 32057, June 21, 1994]