15.2 General Requirements
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15.2 General Requirements

  15.2.1 Stabilization systems should be so designed that in case of failure or malfunctioning of any one of the stabilization devices, or equipment, it would be possible either to ensure maintaining the main parameters of craft's motion within safe limits with the aid of working stabilization devices or to put the craft into the displacement or other safe mode.

  15.2.2 The Administration should be satisfied that in case of failure of any automatic equipment or stabilization device, or its power drive the parameters of craft motion will remain within safe limits.

  15.2.3 Craft fitted with an automatic stabilization system should be provided with an automatic safety control unless the Administration is satisfied that the redundancy in the system provides equivalent safety. Where an automatic safety control is fitted, provision should be made to override it and to cancel the override from the main control position.

  15.2.4 The Administration should be satisfied with the parameters and the levels at which any automatic safety control should give the command to decrease speed and put the craft safely into the displacement or other safe mode. In considering these parameters, the Administration should have regard to the safe values of heel, trim, yaw and combination of trim and draught appropriate to the particular craft and service; also to the possible consequences of power failure for propulsion, lift or stabilization devices.

  15.2.5 The parameters and the degree of stabilization of the craft provided by the automatic stabilization system should be agreed by the Administration having regard to the purpose and service conditions of the craft.

  15.2.6 The requirements for control systems and warning devices are set out in Chapter 11 and Chapter 14, Section 3.


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