New Part 91 and oxygen requirements

[Cloudee]

Soot looks like it’s true, you have to fit oxy equipment if you fly over 10,000 ft but don’t have to use it unless you go higher than 12,500 ft. Another CASA clanger?

Division 26.11 Oxygen equipment and oxygen supplies

26.43 Supplemental oxygen

(1) An aircraft operated at a pressure altitude above 10 000 ft (a relevant aircraft) must be fitted with supplemental oxygen equipment capable of storing and dispensing supplemental oxygen to crew members and passengers.

(2) A relevant aircraft must carry sufficient supplemental oxygen to meet the requirements set out in Table 26.43 (2).

(3) For a person mentioned in column 1 of an item in Table 26.43 (2), supplemental oxygen must be made available through an oxygen dispensing unit (a dispensing unit) in accordance with the supply requirements mentioned for the item in column 2.

(4) Each flight crew member must use the supplemental oxygen that is made available to each of them in accordance with the supply requirements mentioned in column 2 of item 1 of Table 26.43 (2).

Table 26.43 (2) – Supplemental oxygen requirements




Supplemental oxygen supply requirements

1

Flight crew member or cabin crew member

(a) For any period exceeding 30 minutes when the cabin pressure altitude is continuously at least FL 125 but less than FL 140, there must be supply for the entire period.

(b) For any period when the cabin pressure altitude is at least FL 140, there must be supply for the entire period.

(c) Without otherwise affecting paragraphs (a) and (b), when a pressurised aircraft is flown at an altitude of FL 250 or more (relevant flight), there must be at least 10 minutes supply even if the entire period of relevant flight is less than 10 minutes.

2

Passenger

(a) For any period when the cabin pressure altitude is at least FL 150, there must be supply for the entire period.

(b) Without otherwise affecting paragraph (a), when a pressurised aircraft is flown at an altitude of FL 250 or more (relevant flight), there must be at least 10 minutes supply after descending below FL 250 even if the entire period of relevant flight is less than 10 minutes.