Land Survival

For Canada: The carriage of food is not a critical item in survival and is left as a personal choice of the individual operator. Canadian regulations require all aircraft to carry survival equipment appropriate for the number of people on board, the location, and the time of year.  The complete CAR requirement states:

1. No person shall operate an aircraft over land unless there is carried on board survival equipment, sufficient for the survival on the ground of each person on board, given the geographical area, the season of the year and anticipated seasonal climatic variations, that provides the means for
   1. starting a fire;
   2. providing shelter;
   3. providing or purifying water; and
   4. visually signaling distress.

For Alaska:  An airman may not make a flight inside the state with an aircraft unless emergency equipment is carried as follows:

 

  2.   The following minimum equipment must be carried during the summer months:

         a.  rations for each occupant sufficient to sustain life for one week;

         b. one axe or hatchet;

         c. one first aid kit;

        d. an assortment of tackle such as hooks, flies, lines, and sinkers;

        e. one knife;

        f. fire starter;

        g. one mosquito headnet for each occupant;

        h. two small signaling devices such as colored smoke bombs, railroad fuses, or Very pistol shells, in sealed metal containers;

 

 

3.    In addition to the equipment required under (1) of this subsection, the following must be carried as minimum equipment from October 15 to April 1 of each year:

       a. one pair of snowshoes;

       b. one sleeping bag;

       c. one wool blanket or equivalent for each occupant over four.