---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 58.25-80"
title: "46"
number: "58.25-80"
heading: "Automatic pilots and ancillary steering gear."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/58.25-80"
---

# §58.25-80. Automatic pilots and ancillary steering gear.

- (a) Automatic pilots and ancillary steering gear, and steering-gear control systems, must be arranged to allow immediate resumption of manual operation of the steering-gear control system required in the pilothouse. A switch must be provided, at the primary steering position in the pilothouse, to completely disconnect the automatic equipment from the steering-gear controls.
- (b) Automatic pilots and ancillary steering gear must be arranged so that no single failure affects proper operation and independence of the main or auxiliary steering gear, required controls, rudder-angle indicators, or steering-failure alarm.

## Notes

### Source

Source: CGD 83-043, 60 FR 24776, May 10, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18878, Dec. 18, 1968, unless otherwise noted.