14 CFR §29.1415
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- (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.