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AD/EMY/4 Amdt 6 - Life Rafts

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This rule requires regular inspections and inflation tests of aircraft life rafts not already covered by an existing maintenance program, to ensure they’ll work if you ditch. Only CASA‑approved organisations may carry out the checks, which must follow the manufacturer’s instructions. Operators can follow the default 2‑year then annual schedule or, if the manufacturer provides approved technical data allowing longer intervals, use that longer timetable instead—giving operators greater flexibility.

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AD/EMY/4 Amdt 6 - Life Rafts

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 107 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

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AD/EMY/4

Amdt 6

Life Rafts 9/98

Applicability: All life rafts 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 that 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 rafts fall within the definition of aircraft components. Amendment 6 has been raised to permit overhaul intervals in accordance with manufacturer’s approved data if that allows a period greater than; two years from manufacture, then every year.

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