It is important to know the emergency equipment and survival gear appropriate to the airplane and environment encountered during flight. Looking at the route of flight, the pilot should know about the appropriate equipment that is onboard the airplane and what is required to be on board the airplane.
AIM 6-2-4 Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)
AIM 6-2-6 h. Survival Equipment
406 ELT Handout
91.3 Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command
91.205 (12) Flotation gear and pyrotechnic signaling device
91.207 Emergency locator transmitters
Private Pilot ACS Page 53 Task D. Emergency Equipment and Survival Gear