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title: "UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 Survival equipment — Part-IAM · Avioverse"
description: "A VCA operated over areas where search and rescue would be particularly difficult shall be equipped with:"
url: "https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/air-ops/part-iam/subpart-d/uam-ide-mvca-311"
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# UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 Survival equipment

ANNEX IX (Part-IAM) · Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

IR Implementing rule

## UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 Survival equipment

(a) A VCA operated over areas where search and rescue would be particularly difficult shall be equipped with:

(1) signalling equipment to make distress signals;

(2) at least one ELT(S); and

(3) additional survival equipment for the route to be flown taking into account the number of persons on board.

IR · UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 — Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · Regulation (EU) 2024/1111 · Air OPS Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

AMC Acceptable means of compliance

## AMC1 UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 Survival equipment

ADDITIONAL SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT

(a) The following additional survival equipment should be carried when required:

(1) 500 ml of water for each 4, or fraction of 4, persons on board;

(2) one knife;

(3) first-aid equipment; and

(4) one set of air/ground codes.

(b) If any item of equipment contained in the above list is already carried on board the VCA in accordance with another requirement, there is no need for the list to be duplicated.

AMC · AMC1 UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 — Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · ED Decision 2025/010/R · Air OPS Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

GM Guidance material

## GM1 UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 Survival equipment

SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT

The signalling equipment for making distress signals is described in ICAO Annex 2 ‘[Rules of the Air](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/rules-of-the-air)’.

GM · GM1 UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 — Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · ED Decision 2025/010/R · Air OPS Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

GM Guidance material

## GM2 UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 Survival equipment

AREAS WHERE SEARCH AND RESCUE WOULD BE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT

The phrase ‘areas in which search and rescue would be particularly difficult’ means:

(a) areas so designated by the authority responsible for managing search and rescue; or

(b) areas that are largely uninhabited and where:

(1) the authority referred to in point (a) has not published any information to confirm whether search and rescue would or would not be particularly difficult; and

(2) the authority referred to in point (a) does not, as a matter of policy, designate areas as being particularly difficult for search and rescue.

GM · GM2 UAM.IDE.MVCA.311 — Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · ED Decision 2025/010/R · Air OPS Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

[All rules in SUBPART D — INSTRUMENTS, DATA AND EQUIPMENT](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/air-ops/part-iam/subpart-d)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 27 Mar 2026, extracted 13 Oct 2026) for convenience. Not the official publication — verify against the Official Journal of the European Union and the EASA publications before operational use.