Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)RegulationsCivil Aviation Regulations, 2011Part 93 : Corporate Aviation Operations and High Performance AircraftSubpart 2 : Operations Personnel RequirementsDivision Two : Requirements for personnel other than flight crew93.02.11 Cabin crew member emergency duties |
| (1) | A CAO, and where appropriate, a PIC shall assign to each cabin crew member necessary functions to be performed in an emergency or a situation requiring emergency evacuation. |
| (2) | Assignment of functions referred to in subregulation (1) shall ensure that any reasonably anticipated emergency can be adequately dealt with and shall take into consideration a possible incapacitation of individual flight and cabin crew member. |
| (3) | A CAO shall submit proof to the Director that adequate procedures to accomplish an evacuation required by regulation 91.02.2 have been adopted and demonstration has been carried out in accordance with the requirements prescribed in Document SA-CATS 121. |
| (4) | A CAO shall carry out an emergency evacuation demonstration referred to in subregulation (3) when a new type or variant of aircraft or new configuration of an existing aircraft is introduced for use and has not been certified under a certification process prescribed in Document SA-CATS 121. |
| (5) | Passengers may not be carried in an aircraft unless an operator has first conducted, to the satisfaction of the Director, an actual full-capacity emergency evacuation demonstration for that aircraft type, model and configuration in 90 seconds or less. |
| (6) | The Director may approve a partial-capacity demonstration in lieu of a full-capacity demonstration where an operator can produce evidence that— |
| (a) | a satisfactory full-capacity emergency evacuation for an aircraft to be operated was demonstrated during an aircraft type certification or during a certification of another operator; or |
| (b) | there is an engineering analysis. which shows that an evacuation is still possible within the 90 second standard, if an aircraft configuration differs with regard to a number of exits or exit types or number of cabin crew members. |
| (7) | Emergency evacuation procedures referred to in subregulation (1) shall be contained in a CAO's operations manual and shall form part of an operator's emergency training programme. |
| (8) | A CAO may not assign a flight or cabin crew member to perform any emergency function unless such crew member has been trained to perform emergency functions in accordance with an operator's approved emergency training programme. |
| (9) | A flight or cabin crew member may not accept an assignment of duty to perform any emergency functions unless such crew member has been trained to perform emergency functions in accordance with an operator's approved emergency training programme. |