History — 604.224

604.224 (1) A private operator who carries out a demonstration of its emergency evacuation procedures for a model of aeroplane shall (a) do so without passengers; (b) do so with flight attendants who have completed the private operator’s training program for that model of aeroplane; and (c) begin the demonstration using the private operator’s normal procedures, then transition to its emergency procedures. (2) The demonstration is successful if the flight attendants can, within 15 seconds after the transition from the private operator’s normal procedures to its emergency procedures, (a) open 50% of the floor-level emergency exits that are required by the certification basis established in respect of the model of aeroplane; (b) open 50% of the non-floor-level emergency exits the opening of which is set out as an emergency evacuation duty in the private operator’s operations manual; and (c) deploy 50% of the escape slides. (3) The private operator shall record the demonstration using time-encoded video and keep the recording for at least five years after the day on which the demonstration is carried out. SOR/2015-127, s. 12