Equipment
A permit and plane license are needed for all trips. All permit information is available from the FCC website, as are all forms. For registration of flight the pilot will need forms: 1070Y, 159 and FCC 605. Global Navigational Charts (GNCs) can be used for initial planning and obsolete charts used later to see the details of the airways, reporting points, and minimum altitudes.
Required Equipment includes: life raft with survival kit, survival suit for North Atlantic, life vest, HF radio (depending on route). EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon), handheld GPS, handheld communicator, handheld marine radio, batteries, water & food. Some basic survival equipment will come with the raft. Depending on the age of the plane and engine you might want to do a few extra things before leaving. Like changing the vacuum pump, tachometer cable, alternator belt, points, plugs, battery and tires. Also take extra filters, spark plugs and tools. Oxygen is also recommended. It provides an additional option to climb above icing in clouds if necessary.
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Famous quotes containing the word equipment:
“At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of new equipment have their desired effect unless they are in harmony with the child, unless they are fundamentally acceptable to him.”
—Central Advisory Council for Education. Children and Their Primary Schools (Plowden Report)
“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
—Betty Rollin (b. 1936)
“Dr. Scofield’s equipment, which you have just seen, radiated waves direct to Professor Houghland’s laboratory. When these waves came in contact with those the professor’s equipment was radiating, they created the interstellar frequency, which is the death ray.”
—Joseph O’Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi)