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Code · CFR · Title 14 — Aeronautics and Space · Part 25 — Airworthiness Standards: Transport Category Airplanes · § 25.1423

§ 25.1423. Public address system.

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A public address system required by this chapter must—
(a)Be powerable when the aircraft is in flight or stopped on the ground, after the shutdown or failure of all engines and auxiliary power units, or the disconnection or failure of all power sources dependent on their continued operation, for—
(1)A time duration of at least 10 minutes, including an aggregate time duration of at least 5 minutes of announcements made by flight and cabin crewmembers, considering all other loads which may remain powered by the same source when all other power sources are inoperative; and
(2)An additional time duration in its standby state appropriate or required for any other loads that are powered by the same source and that are essential to safety of flight or required during emergency conditions.
(b)Be capable of operation within 3 seconds from the time a microphone is removed from its stowage.
(c)Be intelligible at all passenger seats, lavatories, and flight attendant seats and work stations.
(d)Be designed so that no unused, unstowed microphone will render the system inoperative.
(e)Be capable of functioning independently of any required crewmember interphone system.
(f)Be accessible for immediate use from each of two flight crewmember stations in the pilot compartment.
(g)For each required floor-level passenger emergency exit which has an adjacent flight attendant seat, have a microphone which is readily accessible to the seated flight attendant, except that one microphone may serve more than one exit, provided the proximity of the exits allows unassisted verbal communication between seated flight attendants. [Doc. No. 26003, 58 FR 45229, Aug. 26, 1993, as amended by Amdt. 25-115, 69 FR 40527, July 2, 2004]
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