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Ballistic Parachute Recovery System in ATC flight plans

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By Ibex - 8/20/2025 9:19:13 AM

Hi,

updated SERA.4005(a) now requires a ballistic parachute recovery system to be included as a remark in section 19 in the ICAO flight plan.  Quote EASA guidance and acceptable means of compliance docs:
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GM1 SERA.4005(a)(14) Contents of a flight plan
ED Decision 2024/007/R

BALLISTIC PARACHUTE RECOVERY SYSTEM

The information on ballistic parachute recovery systems may be included in the field for remarks under Item 19 of the ICAO model flight plan, as specified in Appendix 6 ‘COMPLETION OF A FLIGHT PLAN’ to the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012.
[applicable from 1 May 2025 – ED Decision 2024/007/R]
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I have not found a way to include this with the aircraft profile, to get it automatically added when selecting an aircraft equipped with such system. Ideally we would get a check box similar to the avionics equipment options somewhere in the emergency equipment section of the aircraft profile which then triggers the remark to be added in section 19.

Thanks for your kind consideration.
-- Ibex
By grahamb - 8/21/2025 2:02:56 PM

 
Ibex - 8/21/2025 8:23:57 AM
 
grahamb - 8/20/2025 6:45:11 PM

The word used is ‘may’, not ‘shall’ or ‘must’, and it appears only in Guidance Material, which is just that - guidance and not binding. 

The guidance material quoted above is indeed pretty vague on how to include the information on BRS in a flight plan and only suggests how you may do so, however SERA.4005(a) leaves little to no room for interpretation:
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SERA.4005 Contents of a flight plan
Regulation (EU) 2024/1111

(a) A flight plan shall include all information considered relevant by the competent authority as regards the following:
(1) aircraft identification;
[...]
(14) emergency and survival equipment, including ballistic parachute recovery system;
(15) other information.
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Depending which AIS unit you work with I've already had flight plans rejected lacking the information on BRS installed when it was obvious because of the type of aircraft.

-- Ibex

Thanks for that - somehow I missed the update to include a BRS in the primary rule. Sad