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personal locator beacon
- Definição1
- A portable device, manually activated, which transmits a distress signal on 406 MHz, and may have an additional homing signal on a separate frequency.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual. Volume II: Mission Co-ordination. Montreal, 2013. (Doc. 9731)
- Fonte2
- BRASIL. Comando da Aeronáutica. Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo. CIRCEA 64-1: busca e salvamento - glossário de termos de busca e salvamento aeronáutico. Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Disponível em: http://publicacoes.decea.gov.br/?i=publicacao&id=3649. Acesso em: 15 maio 2014.
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION; INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. IAMSAR manual: international aeronautical and maritime search and rescue manual. Volume II: mission co-ordination. 3rd ed. Montréal, 2013. (Doc. 9731)
- Fonte4
- AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT SAFETY BUREAU. ATSB Transport Safety Report. Helicopter winching accident involving Bell Helicopter Co. 412EP, VH-VAS. Disponível em:
- Nota adicional1
- Acronym in English: PLB.
- Nota adicional2
- Information regarding this term is a result of researches developed by DECEA in cooperation with ANAC.
- Contexto
- There are three types of 406 MHz distress beacons: the maritime emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) which is part of the GMDSS, the aeronautical emergency locator transmitter (ELT) and the personal locator beacon (PLB).
- On 24 December 2011, an Agusta Westland AW139 helicopter responded to an emergency personal locator beacon in the Budderoo National Park, about 16 km west-south-west of Wollongong Airport, NSW.
- Subárea1
- Search and Rescue
- Related Term
- personal flotation device
- Português
- radiobaliza de localização pessoal