• (a)the equipment referred to in Scale A (2);
• (b)first aid equipment and handbook, referred to in Scale B;
• (c)time-pieces, referred to in Scale F;
• (d)torches, referred to in Scales G, H and J;
• (e)whistles, referred to in Scale H;
• (f)sea anchors, referred to in Scales I and J;
• (g)rocket signals, referred to in Scales I and J;
• (h)equipment for mooring, anchoring or manoeuvring aircraft on the water, referred to in Scale I;
• (i)paddles, referred to in Scale J;
• (j)food and water, referred to in Scale J;
• (k)first aid equipment, referred to in Scale J;
• (l)megaphones, referred to in Scale U.

Scale A

• (1)Spare fuses for all electrical circuits the fuses of which can be replaced in flight, consisting of 10% of the number of each rating or 3 of each rating, whichever is the greater.
• (2)Maps, charts, codes and other documents and navigational equipment necessary, in addition to any other equipment required under these Regulations or any directions issued thereunder for the intended flight of the aircraft, including any diversion which may reasonably be expected.
• (3)
  • (a)On all flights, subject to Scale B(3)(a), a safety belt or safety harness for every seat in use.
  • (b)On all flights—
    • (i)Subject to Scale B(3)(b), in all aeroplanes and helicopters for every pilot's seat and for any seat situated alongside a pilot's seat, a safety belt with one diagonal shoulder strap or a safety harness, provided that the Authority may permit a safety belt without diagonal shoulder strap to be fitted if it is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable to fit a safety belt with one diagonal shoulder strap or a safety harness.
    • (ii)For every other seat in use a safety belt with or without one diagonal shoulder strap or a safety harness.
• (4)Portable fire extinguishers of an approved type which, when discharged, will not cause dangerous contamination of the air within the aircraft and located—
  • (a)in the pilots’ compartment; and
  • (b)in each passenger compartment that is separate from the pilots’ compartment and that is not readily accessible to the flight crew.

Scale B

• (1)First aid equipment of good quality, sufficient in quantity, having regard to the number of persons on board the aircraft, and including the following—
  • (a)roller bandages, triangular bandages, adhesive plaster, absorbent gauze, cotton wool (or wound dressings in place of the absorbent gauze and cotton wool), burn dressings, safety pins;
  • (b)haemostatic bandages or tourniquets, scissors;
  • (c)antiseptic, analgesic and stimulant drugs;
  • (d)non-inflatable splints;
  • (e)A handbook on First Aid.
• (2)In the case of an aircraft used for the public transport of passengers in which, while the aircraft is at rest on the ground, the sill of any external door intended for the disembarkation of passengers, whether normally or in an emergency—
  • (a)is more than 1.83 metres from the ground when the undercarriage of the machine is in the normal position for taxiing; or
  • (b)would be more than 1.83 metres from the ground if the undercarriage or any part thereof should collapse, break or fail to function, apparatus readily available for use of each such door consisting of a device or devices which will enable passengers to reach the ground safely in an emergency while the aircraft is on the ground, and can be readily fixed in position for use.
• (3)
  • (a)On all flights, if the maximum total weight authorised of the aircraft is more than 2,730 kg a safety harness for every pilot's seat in use, in place of the safety belt referred to under Scale A, provided that the Authority may permit a safety belt to be fitted if it is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable to fit a safety harness.
  • (b)On all flights, if the maximum total weight authorised of the aircraft is more than 2,730 kg a safety harness for every pilot's seat in use, in place of the safety belt with one diagonal shoulder strap referred to under Scale A, provided that the Authority may permit a safety belt with one diagonal shoulder strap to be fitted if it is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable to fit a safety harness.
• (4)On all flights any seats used by cabin crews during take off or landing shall be forward or rearward facing (within 15 degrees of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft) and be fitted with a safety harness.
• (5)If the pilot-in-command cannot, from his or her own seat, see all the passengers’ seats in the aircraft, a means of indicating to the passengers that seat belts should be fastened.

Scale C

• (1)Equipment for displaying the lights required by the rules of the Air.
• (2)Electrical equipment, supplied from the main source of supply in the aircraft, to provide sufficient illumination to enable the flight crew properly to carry out their duties during flight.
• (3)Unless the aircraft is equipped with radio, equipment or devices for making any visual signal specified in the rules of the Air, or notified by the Authority as being signals that may be used by aircraft to acknowledge ATC signals given or indicate any specified condition or request.

Scale D

• (1)
  • (a)In the case of a helicopter, a slip indicator.
  • (b)In the case of any other aircraft, either—
    • (i)a turn indicator and a slip indicator; or
    • (ii)a gyroscopic bank and pitch indicator and gyroscopic direction indicator.
• (2)A sensitive pressure altimeter adjustable for changes in barometric pressure.

Scale E

• (1)
  • (a)In the case of a helicopter, a slip indicator.
  • (b)In the case of any other aircraft, a turn indicator and a slip indicator.
• (2)A gyroscopic bank and pitch indicator.
• (3)A gyroscopic direction indicator.
• (4)A sensitive pressure altimeter adjustable for changes in barometric pressure, provided that any aircraft may, at the option of the operator, be equipped with an additional gyroscopic bank and pitch indicator in lieu of the turn indicator referred to in (1) of this Scale.

Scale F

• (1)A timepiece capable of indicating the time in hours, minutes and seconds.
• (2)A means of indicating whether the power supply to the gyroscopic instruments is adequate.
• (3)A rate of climb and descent indicator.
• (4)If the maximum total weight authorised of the aircraft exceeds 5,700 kg, a means of indicating the outside air temperature.
• (5)If the maximum total weight authorised of the aircraft exceeds 5,700 kg, 2 air speed indicators.

Scale G

• (1)Landing lights consisting of 2 single filament lamps, or one dual filament lamp with separately energised filaments.
• (2)An electric lighting system to provide illumination in every passenger compartment.
• (3)
  • (a)If the aircraft, in accordance with its certificate of airworthiness, may carry more than 19 persons over 2 years of age, 2 electric torches and an emergency lighting system to provide illumination in the passenger compartments sufficient to facilitate the evacuation of the aircraft notwithstanding the failure of the lighting systems specified in paragraph (2).
  • (b)In the case of any other aircraft, one electric torch for each member of the crew of the aircraft.
  • (c)In the case of an aircraft of which the maximum total weight authorised exceeds 5,700 kg—
    • (i)2 electric torches and an emergency lighting system to provide illumination in the passenger compartments on the failure of the lighting system specified in paragraph (2);
    • (ii)an emergency lighting system to provide illumination outside the aircraft sufficient to facilitate the evacuation of the aircraft.
• (4)In the case of an aircraft of which the maximum total weight authorised exceeds 5,700 kg, means of observing the existence and build up of ice on the aircraft.

Scale H

For each person on board a lifejacket equipped with a whistle and waterproof torch, provided that life jackets constructed and carried solely for use by children under 2 years of age need not be equipped with a whistle.

Scale I

• (1)Additional flotation equipment, capable of supporting one-fifth of the number of persons on board and provided in a place of stowage accessible from outside the aircraft.
• (2)Marine type pyrotechnic distress signals capable of making from the surface of the water, the pyrotechnic signal of distress specified in the rules of the Air.
• (3)A sea anchor and other equipment necessary to facilitate mooring, anchoring or manoeuvring the aircraft on water, appropriate to its size, weight and handling characteristics.

Scale J

• (1)Liferafts sufficient to accommodate all persons on board the aircraft and within each life raft the following equipment—
  • (a)means for maintaining buoyancy;
  • (b)a sea anchor;
  • (c)life lines, and means of attaching one liferaft to another;
  • (d)paddles or other means of propulsion;
  • (e)means of protecting the occupants from the elements;
  • (f)a waterproof torch;
  • (g)marine type pyrotechnic distress signals;
  • (h)means of making sea water drinkable, unless the full quantity of fresh water is carried as specified in item (i) hereunder;
  • (i)for each 4 or proportion of 4 persons the life raft is designed to carry: 100 grams of glucose toffee tablets; 0.5 litre of fresh water in durable containers, provided that, in any case in which it is not reasonably practicable to carry the quantity of water specified above, as large a quantity of fresh water as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances may be substituted. In no case however shall the quantity of water be less than is sufficient, when added to the amount of fresh water capable of being produced by means of the equipment specified in item (h), to provide 0.5 litre of water for each 4 or proportion of 4 persons the life raft is designed to carry;
  • (j)first aid equipment.

    Items (f) to (j) inclusive, shall be contained in a pack.

• (2)The number of survival beacon radio apparatus carried when the aircraft is carrying the number of life rafts specified in column 1 hereunder shall be not less than the number specified in, or calculated in accordance with, column 2 hereunder:

Scale K

Section 1

• (1)In every aircraft which is provided with means for maintaining a pressure greater than 700 millibars throughout the flight crew compartment and in the compartments in which passengers are carried—
  • (a)a supply of oxygen sufficient, in the event of failure to maintain such pressure occurring in the circumstances specified in columns 1 and 2 of the table set out in section 2 of this Scale, for continuous use, during the periods specified in column 3 of the said section 2 by the persons for whom oxygen is to be provided in accordance with column 4 of the said section 2; and
  • (b)in addition, in every case where the aircraft flies above flight level 350, a supply of oxygen in a portable container sufficient for the simultaneous first aid treatment of 2 passengers, together with suitable and sufficient apparatus to enable such persons to use the oxygen.
• (2)In any other aircraft—
  • (a)a supply of oxygen sufficient for continuous use by all the crew, and, if passengers are carried, by 10% of the number of passengers, for any period exceeding 30 minutes during which the aircraft flies above flight level 10,000 feet but not above flight level 130; and
  • (b)a supply of oxygen sufficient for continuous use by all persons on board for the whole time during which the aircraft flies above flight level 130, together with suitable and sufficient apparatus to enable such persons to use the oxygen.
• (3)The quantity of oxygen required for the purpose of complying with paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section of this Scale shall be computed in accordance with the information and instructions relating thereto specified in the operations manual of the aircraft.

• (a)The whole period during which, after a failure to maintain a pressure greater than 700 millibars in the control compartment and in the compartments in which passengers are carried has occurred, the aircraft flies above 10,000 feet.
• (b)The whole period during which, after a failure to maintain such pressure has occurred, the aircraft flies above flight level 150.
• (c)The whole period during which, after a failure to maintain such pressure has occurred, the aircraft flies above 10,000 feet, but not above flight level 150.
• (d)The aircraft is capable, at the time when a failure to maintain such pressure occurs, of descending in accordance with the emergency descent procedure specified in the relevant flight manual and without flying below the minimum altitudes for safe flight specified in the operations manual relating to the aircraft, to flight level 150 within 6 minutes, and of continuing at or below that flight level to its place of intended destination or any other place at which a safe landing can be made.
• (e)The aircraft is capable, at the time when a failure to maintain such pressure occurs, of descending in accordance with the emergency descent procedure specified in the relevant flight manual and without flying below the minimum altitudes for safe flight specified in the operations manual relating to the aircraft, to flight level 150 within 4 minutes and of continuing at or below that flight level to its place of intended destination or any other place at which a safe landing can be made.

Scale L

Equipment to prevent the impairment through ice formation of the functioning of the controls, means of propulsion, lifting surfaces, windows, or equipment of the aircraft so as to endanger the safety of the aircraft.

Scale M

Safety harness for every seat in use, provided that in the case of an aircraft carrying out aerobatic manoeuvres consisting only of erect spinning, the Authority may permit a safety belt with one diagonal shoulder strap to be fitted if it is satisfied that such restraint is sufficient for the carrying out of erect spinning in that aircraft and that it is not reasonably practicable to fit a safety harness in that aircraft.

Scale N

An intercommunication system for use by all members of the flight crew and including microphones, not of a handheld type, for use by the pilots and flight engineer, if any.

Scale O

A radar set capable of giving warning to the pilot in command of the aircraft and to the co-pilot of the presence of cumulonimbus clouds and other potentially hazardous weather conditions, provided that a flight may continue if the set becomes unserviceable—

• (a)so as to give the warning only to one pilot, so long as the aircraft is flying only to the place at which it first becomes reasonably practicable for the set to be repaired; or
• (b)on take-off, but the weather report or forecasts available to the pilot in command of the aircraft indicate that cumulonimbus clouds or other potentially hazardous weather conditions which can be detected by the set when in working order are unlikely to be encountered on the intended route or any planned diversion therefrom or the pilot-in-command has satisfied himself or herself that any such weather conditions will be encountered in daylight and can be seen and avoided and the aircraft is in either case operated throughout the flight in accordance with any relevant instructions given in the operations manual.

Scale P

A flight data recorder which is capable of recording, by reference to a time-scale, the following data—

• (a)indicated air speed;.
• (b)indicated altitude;
• (c)vertical acceleration;
• (d)magnetic heading;
• (e)pitch attitude, if the equipment provided in the aeroplane is of such a nature as to enable this item to be recorded;
• (f)engine power, if the equipment provided in the aeroplane is of such a nature as to enable this item to be recorded;
• (g)flap positions;
• (h)roll attitude, if the equipment provided in the aeroplane is of such a nature as to enable this item to be recorded, provided that any aeroplane having a maximum total weight authorised not exceeding 11,400 kg may be provided with—
• (i)a flight data recorder capable of recording the data described in subparagraphs (a) to (h) of this Scale; or
• (j)a 4 channel cockpit voice recorder.

In addition, on all flights by turbine-powered aeroplanes having a maximum total weight authorised exceeding 27,000 kg, a 4 channel cockpit voice recorder.

The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder referred to above shall be so constructed that the record would be likely to be preserved in the event of an accident to the aeroplane, provided that an aeroplane shall not be required to carry the said flight data recorder and cockpit recorder, if before take-off the equipment is found to be unserviceable and the aircraft flies in accordance with arrangements approved by the Authority.

Scale Q

If the maximum total weight authorised of the aircraft exceeds 5,700 kg, a door between the flight crew compartment and any adjacent compartment to which passengers have access, which door shall be fitted with a lock or bolt capable of being worked only from the flight crew compartment.

Scale R

• (1)Equipment sufficient to protect the eyes, nose and mouth of the pilot in command of the aircraft from the effects of smoke and noxious gases for a period of not less than 15 minutes; and
• (2)Portable equipment sufficient to protect the eyes, nose and mouth of one other member of the crew of the aircraft from the effects of smoke and noxious gases for a period of not less than 8 minutes; and
• (3)Equipment sufficient to protect from the effects of smoke and noxious gases the eyes of all members of the flight crew of the aircraft whose eyes are not adequately protected by other equipment.

Scale S

A flight recording system comprising—

• (1)in respect of aeroplanes having a maximum total weight authorised not exceeding 11,400 kg, either a 4 channel cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder capable of recording by reference to a time scale data from which the following information can be ascertained: the flight path of the aeroplane; the altitude of the aeroplane; and the basic lift, thrust and drag forces acting upon the aeroplane;
• (2)in respect of aeroplanes having a maximum total weight authorised exceeding 11,400 kg but not exceeding 27,000 kg, a 4 channel cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder capable of recording by reference to a time scale data from which the information specified in paragraph (1) can be ascertained;
• (3)in respect of aeroplanes having a maximum total weight authorised exceeding 27,000 kg a 4 channel cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder capable of recording by reference to a time scale data from which the following information can be established: the flight path of the aeroplane; the altitude of the aeroplane; the basic lift, thrust and drag forces acting upon the aeroplane; the selection of high lift devices, if any, and airbrakes, if any; the position of primary flying control and pitch trim surfaces; cockpit warnings relating to engine fire and engine shutdown, cabin pressurisation, presence of smoke and hydraulic/ pneumatic power supply, outside air temperature, instrument landing system deviations; use made of automatic flight control system; radio altitude, if any, and the level of essential AC electricity supply. The cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder, as the case may be, shall be so constructed that the record would be likely to be preserved in the event of an accident, provided that an aeroplane shall not be required to carry the said flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, if before take-off the equipment is found to be unserviceable and the aircraft flies in accordance with arrangements approved by the Authority.

Scale T

An underwater sonar location device.

Scale U

On all flights—

• (1)If the aircraft has a total seating capacity of not less than 60 and not exceeding 149 passengers, one portable battery powered megaphone capable of conveying instructions to all persons in the passenger compartment and readily available for use by a member of the crew.
• (2)If the aircraft has a total seating capacity exceeding 149 passengers, 2 portable battery-powered megaphones together capable of conveying instructions to all persons in the passenger compartment and readily available for use by a member of the crew.

Scale V

In respect of aeroplanes which have a maximum total weight authorised exceeding 5,700 kg—

• (a)An emergency power supply, independent of and activated automatically on the failure of the main generating system, for the purpose of operating and illuminating one or more altitude indicating instruments for a minimum period of 30 minutes and an indicator on the instrument panel to show that the altitude indicating instruments are being operated by such emergency power.
• (b)The altitude indicating instruments specified in this scale shall be so located as to permit the pilot to see their indications with the minimum practical deviation from the position and line of vision he or she normally assumes when looking forward along the flight path.

Scale W 1

Equipment of a type approved by the Authority that includes a forward looking terrain avoidance function, and that provides automatically a timely and distinctive warning to the flight crew when the aeroplane is in potentially hazardous proximity to the earth's surface and provides warnings of the following circumstances—

• (a)excessive descent rate;
• (b)excessive terrain closure rate;
• (c)excessive altitude loss after take-off or go-around;
• (d)unsafe terrain clearance while not in landing configuration;
  • (i)gear not locked down;
  • (ii)flaps not in a landing position; and
• (e)excessive descent below the instrument glide path.

For aircraft of less than 5700 kg but approved to carry 10 to 19 passengers and fitted for ADS-B surveillance, TAWS class A or TAWS Class B as defined in TSO-C151A or any replacement of it is acceptable to the Authority.

Scale W 2

A Ground Proximity Warning System or equipment of a type approved by the Authority which provides warnings of excessive descent rate, excessive altitude loss after take-off or go-around, warning of unsafe terrain clearance and a forward looking terrain avoidance function.

Scale X

An airborne collision avoidance system of a type approved by the Authority that operates in accordance with the relevant provisions of Annex 10 Volume 4 and shall meet the requirements of FAA TSO-C119b.

Scale Y

A pressure-altitude reporting transponder of a type approved by the Authority that operates in accordance with the relevant provisions of Annex 10 Volume 4. All aircraft for which the individual aircraft's first certificate of airworthiness was issued after 1 January 2007 shall be equipped with a data source that provides pressure altitude information with a resolution of 7.62 m (25 ft), or better.

Scale Z

Serviceable and operating ADS-B equipment that meets a standard notified by the Authority.

Table

Scale A

Radio equipment capable of maintaining two-way communication with the appropriate aeronautical radio stations from at least 25 nautical miles away when in flight.

Scale B

Radio equipment capable of enabling the aircraft to be navigated on the intended route including such equipment as may be notified by the Authority.

Scale C

Radio equipment capable of receiving from the appropriate aeronautical radio stations meteorological broadcasts relevant to the intended flight.

Scale D

Equipment capable of receiving signals from one or more aeronautical stations to enable the aircraft to be guided to a point from which a visual landing can be made at the airport at which the aircraft is to land.

Scale E

Radio equipment capable of providing a continuous indication of the aircraft's distance from the appropriate.

Scale F

Radio equipment capable of enabling the aircraft to make an approach to landing using the Instrument Landing System.