JAR 25.812 Emergency lighting
(a) An emergency lighting system,
independent of the main lighting system, must be
installed. However, the sources of general cabin
illumination may be common to both the
emergency and the main lighting systems if the
power supply to the emergency lighting system is
independent of the power supply to the main
lighting system. The emergency lighting system
must include-(
1) Illuminated emergency exit marking
and locating signs, sources of general cabin
illumination, interior lighting in emergency exit
areas, and floor proximity escape path marking.
(2) Exterior emergency lighting.
(b) Emergency exit signs –
(1) For aeroplanes that have a
passenger seating configuration, excluding
pilot seats, of 10 seats or more must meet the
following requirements:
(i) Each passenger emergency
exit locator sign required by JAR 25.811
(d)(1) and each passenger emergency exit
marking sign required by JAR
25.811(d)(2) must have red letters at least
1·5 inches high on an illuminated white
background, and must have an area of at
least 21 square inches excluding the
letters. The lighted background-to-letter
contrast must be at least 10:1. The letter
height to stroke-width ratio may not be
more than 7:1 nor less than 6:1. These
signs must be internally electrically
illuminated with a background brightness
of at least 25 foot-lamberts and a high-to-low
background contrast no greater than
3:1.
(ii) Each passenger emergency
exit sign required by JAR 25.811(d)(3)
must have red letters at least 1·5 inches
high on a white background having an
area of at least 21 square inches
excluding the letters. These signs must
be internally electrically illuminated or
self-illuminated by other than electrical
means and must have an initial brightness
of at least 400 microlamberts. The
colours may be reversed in the case of a
sign that is self-illuminated by other than
electrical means.
(2) For aeroplanes that have a
passenger seating configuration, excluding
pilot seats, of 9 seats or less, that are required
by JAR 25.811 (d)(1), (2), and (3) must have
red letters at least 1 inch high on a white
background at least 2 inches high. These signs
may be internally electrically illuminated, or
self-illuminated by other than electrical means,
with an initial brightness of at least 160
microlamberts. The colours may be reversed in
the case of a sign that is self-illuminated by
other than electrical means.
(c) General illumination in the passenger
cabin must be provided so that when measured
along the centreline of main passenger aisle(s),
and cross aisle(s) between main aisles, at seat
armrest height and at 40-inch intervals, the
average illumination is not less than 0·05 foot-candle
and the illumination at each 40-inch
interval is not less than 0·01 foot-candle. A main
passenger aisle(s) is considered to extend along
the fuselage from the most forward passenger
emergency exit or cabin occupant seat, whichever
is farther forward, to the most rearward passenger
emergency exit or cabin occupant seat, whichever
is farther aft.
(d) The floor of the passageway leading to
each floor-level passenger emergency exit,
between the main aisles and the exit openings,
must be provided with illumination that is not less
than 0·02 foot-candle measured along a line that is
within 6 inches of and parallel to the floor and is
centred on the passenger evacuation path.
(e) Floor proximity emergency escape path
marking must provide emergency evacuation
guidance for passengers when all sources of
illumination more than 4 ft above the cabin aisle
floor are totally obscured. In the dark of the
night, the floor proximity emergency escape path
marking must enable each passenger to –
(1) After leaving the passenger seat,
visually identify the emergency escape path
along the cabin aisle floor to the first exits or
pair of exits forward and aft of the seat; and
(2) Readily identify each exit from the
emergency escape path by reference only to
markings and visual features not more than 4 ft
above the cabin floor.
(f) Except for sub-systems provided in
accordance with sub-paragraph (h) of this paragraph
that serve no more than one assist means, are
independent of the aeroplane’s main emergency
lighting system, and are automatically activated when
the assist means is erected, the emergency lighting
system must be designed as follows:
(1) The lights must be operable
manually from the flight crew station and from
a point in the passenger compartment that is
readily accessible to a normal cabin crew
member seat.]
(2) There must be a flight crew warning
light which illuminates when power is on in the
aeroplane and the emergency lighting control
device is not armed.
(3) The cockpit control device must
have an ‘on’, ‘off’ and ‘armed’ position so that
when armed in the cockpit or turned on at
either the cockpit or cabin crew member]
station the lights will either light or remain
lighted upon interruption (except an
interruption caused by a transverse vertical
separation of the fuselage during crash
landing) of the aeroplane’s normal electric
power. There must be a means to safeguard
against inadvertent operation of the control
device from the ‘armed’ or ‘on’ positions.
(g) Exterior emergency lighting must be
provided as follows:
(1) At each overwing emergency exit
the illumination must be –
(i) Not less than 0·03 foot-candle
(measured normal to the direction of the
incident light) on a two-square-foot area
where an evacuee is likely to make his
first step outside the cabin;
(ii) Not less than 0·05 foot-candle
(measured normal to the direction of the
incident light) for the minimum width of
42 inches for a Type A overwing
emergency exit and of 2 ft for all other
overwing emergency exits along the 30%
of the slip-resistant portion of the escape
route required in JAR 25.803 (e) that is
farthest from the exit; and
(iii) Not less than 0·03 foot-candle
on the ground surface with the landing
gear extended (measured normal to the
direction of the incident light) where an
evacuee using the established escape
route would normally make first contact
with the ground.
(2) At each non-overwing emergency
exit not required by JAR 25.809 (f) to have
descent assist means the illumination must be
not less than 0·03 foot-candle (measured
normal to the direction of the incident light) on
the ground surface with the landing gear
extended where an evacuee is likely to make
his first contact with the ground outside the
cabin.
(h) The means required in JAR 25.810 (a) (1)
and (d) to assist the occupants in descending] to
the ground must be illuminated so that the erected
assist means is visible from the aeroplane. In
addition –
(1) If the assist means is illuminated by
exterior emergency lighting, it must provide
illumination of not less than 0·03 foot-candle
(measured normal to the direction of the
incident light) at the ground end of the erected
assist means where an evacuee using the
established escape route would normally make
first contact with the ground, with the
aeroplane in each of the attitudes
corresponding to the collapse of one or more
legs of the landing gear.
(2) If the emergency lighting sub-system
illuminating the assist means serves no
other assist means, is independent of the
aeroplane’s main emergency lighting system,
and is automatically activated when the assist
means is erected, the lighting provisions –
(i) May not be adversely affected
by stowage; and
(ii) Must provide illumination of
not less than 0·03 foot-candle (measured
normal to the direction of the incident
light) at the ground end of the erected
assist means where an evacuee would
normally make first contact with the
ground, with the aeroplane in each of the
attitudes corresponding to the collapse of
one or more legs of the landing gear.
(i) The energy supply to each emergency
lighting unit must provide the required level of
illumination for at least 10 minutes at the critical
ambient conditions after emergency landing.
(j) If storage batteries are used as the energy
supply for the emergency lighting system, they
may be recharged from the aeroplane’s main
electric power system: Provided, that the charging
circuit is designed to preclude inadvertent battery
discharge into charging circuit faults.
(k) Components of the emergency lighting
system, including batteries, wiring relays, lamps,
and switches must be capable of normal operation
after having been subjected to the inertia forces
listed in JAR 25.561 (b).
(l) The emergency lighting system must be
designed so that after any single transverse
vertical separation of the fuselage during crash
landing –
(1) Not more than 25% of all
electrically illuminated emergency lights
required by this section are rendered
inoperative, in addition to the lights that are
directly damaged by the separation;
(2) Each electrically illuminated exit
sign required under JAR 25.811 (d) (2) remains
operative exclusive of those that are directly
damaged by the separation; and
(3) At least one required exterior
emergency light for each side of the aeroplane
remains operative exclusive of those that are
directly damaged by the separation.
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