COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 107 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY
SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES
Emergency Equipment
AD/EMY/2
Amdt 6
Life Jackets and Inflatable Flotation Devices 9/98
Applicability: All life jackets and inflatable flotation devices not subject to a System of Maintenance which are installed or intended to be installed in an aircraft.
Requirement: Inspect and test in accordance with requirements in instructions issued by the manufacturer. This is to be undertaken by an organisation approved for the purpose by the Authority.
Compliance: In accordance with:
the approved maintenance data; or,
within two years of date of manufacture and thereafter at intervals not exceeding one year.
This amendment becomes effective on 13 August 1998.
Background: Life jackets fall within the definition of aircraft components. Amendment 5 was raised to include inflatable flotation devices. Amendment 6 has been raised to permit inspection intervals to be in accordance with manufacturer’s approved data if that allows a period greater than; two years from manufacture, then every year.