EN 4886:2024

Aerospace series - Rotorcraft life raft - Requirements, testing and marking

This document specifies minimum requirements for life rafts carried on helicopters operating in a hostile sea area or over very rough sea conditions. Life rafts covered by this document are for use by helicopter crew members and passengers in the event of a ditching or water impact.
They are intended either for integration into the helicopter, or stowed in the cabin before being manhandled out of the helicopter. This document does not cover air-drop life rafts.

Luft- und Raumfahrt - Drehflügler-Rettungsinsel - Anforderungen, Prüfung und Kennzeichnung

Série aérospatiale - Radeaux de sauvetage de giravion - Exigences, essais et marquage

Le présent document spécifie les exigences minimales applicables aux radeaux de sauvetage transportés à bord des hélicoptères en cas d'opérations sur une zone maritime hostile ou lorsque la mer est très agitée. Les radeaux de sauvetage couverts par le présent document sont destinés à être utilisés par les membres d'équipage et par les passagers des hélicoptères en cas d'amerrissage forcé ou d'impact avec un plan d'eau.
Ils sont destinés à être intégrés dans l'hélicoptère, ou bien à être rangés dans la cabine avant d'être sortis à la main de l'hélicoptère. Le présent document ne concerne pas les radeaux de sauvetage largués.

Aeronavtika - Reševalni splav za rotoplane - Zahteve, preskušanje in označevanje

Ta dokument določa minimalne zahteve za reševalne splave, ki jih prevažajo helikopterji, za reševanje v neugodnih vremenskih razmerah ali na zelo razburkanem morju. Reševalni splavi, zajeti v tem dokumentu, so namenjeni članom posadke in potnikom helikopterja v primeru pristanka na vodi oziroma padca v vodo.
Namenjeni so za vgradnjo v helikopter ali pa so shranjeni v kabini, preden jih uporabnik ročno vzame iz helikopterja. Ta dokument ne zajema reševalnih splavov, ki se spustijo v vodo iz zraka.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 16-Jul-2024
• ICS: 13.200 - Accident and disaster control
• ICS: 49.020 - Aircraft and space vehicles in general
• Technical Committee: ASD-STAN - Aerospace
• Drafting Committee: ASD-STAN/D 12/WG 2 - Ditching Equipment
• Current Stage: 6060 - Definitive text made available (DAV) - Publishing
• Start Date: 17-Jul-2024
• Completion Date: 17-Jul-2024
• Ref Project: SIST EN 4886:2024 - Aerospace series - Rotorcraft life raft - Requirements, testing and marking

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2024
Aeronavtika - Reševalni splav za rotoplane - Zahteve, preskušanje in označevanje
Aerospace series - Rotorcraft life raft - Requirements, testing and marking
Luft- und Raumfahrt - Drehflüglerrettungsinsel - Anforderungen, Prüfung und
Kennzeichnung
Série aérospatiale - Radeaux de sauvetage de giravion - Exigences, essais et marquage
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 4886:2024
ICS:
13.200 Preprečevanje nesreč in Accident and disaster control
katastrof
49.020 Letala in vesoljska vozila na Aircraft and space vehicles in
splošno general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN 4886
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
July 2024
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 13.200; 49.020
English Version
Aerospace series - Rotorcraft life raft - Requirements,
testing and marking
Série aérospatiale - Radeaux de sauvetage de giravion - Luft- und Raumfahrt - Drehflügler-Rettungsinsel -
Exigences, essais et marquage Anforderungen, Prüfung und Kennzeichnung
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 26 May 2024.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this
European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references
concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN
member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by
translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
Centre has the same status as the official versions.

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Contents Page
European foreword . 5
Introduction . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms and definitions . 8
4 Description . 12
4.1 Design features . 12
4.2 Performance levels . 13
4.2.1 Category A . 13
4.2.2 Category B . 13
5 Requirements . 14
5.1 Design . 14
5.1.1 Occupancy ratings . 14
5.1.2 Buoyancy . 14
5.1.3 Canopy . 14
5.1.4 Floor . 15
5.1.5 Boarding facility . 15
5.1.6 Seaworthiness . 15
5.2 Materials and components . 15
5.2.1 General. 15
5.2.2 Resistance to temperature . 15
5.2.3 Resistance to fluids . 16
5.2.4 Resistance to fuel . 16
5.2.5 Tensile and tear strength . 16
5.2.6 Adhesion . 17
5.2.7 Seam strength . 17
5.2.8 Chafing/abrasion . 17
5.2.9 Gas permeability . 18
5.2.10 Resistance to puncture . 18
5.2.11 Resistance to fungal growth . 18
5.2.12 Flammability . 18
5.2.13 Resistance to salt spray . 18
5.2.14 Resistance to ultraviolet radiation . 19
5.3 Conspicuity . 19
5.3.1 Colour . 19
5.3.2 Retroreflective material . 20
5.4 Functional performance . 22
5.4.1 Resistance to temperature . 22
5.4.2 Pressure retention . 22
5.4.3 Proof pressure . 23
5.4.4 Inflation systems . 23
5.4.5 Overpressure . 24
5.4.6 Deployment . 24
5.4.7 Freeboard . 25
5.4.8 Boarding facility . 25
5.4.9 Canopy . 26
5.4.10 Drop . 26
5.4.11 Packed buoyancy . 26
5.5 Attached equipment . 26
5.5.1 General . 26
5.5.2 Life lines and grab lines . 26
5.5.3 Retaining lines . 27
5.5.4 Sea anchor . 28
5.5.5 Rescue line and quoit . 28
5.5.6 Stabilizing system . 28
5.5.7 Survivor locator lights . 29
5.5.8 Knife/belt cutter . 30
5.5.9 Survival ELT . 31
5.5.10 Survival equipment kit . 31
5.6 Ergonomic performance . 31
5.7 Seaworthiness . 33
5.8 Valise or container . 33
5.8.1 Category A life rafts . 33
5.8.2 Category B life rafts . 33
6 Testing . 34
6.1 Visual inspection . 34
6.2 Nominal values and tolerances . 34
6.3 Materials and components . 34
6.3.1 Fluids (Category B life raft valise or container) . 34
6.3.2 Fuel . 34
6.3.3 Resistance to puncture . 35
6.3.4 Resistance to fungal growth . 36
6.3.5 Relief valve .
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