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EPIRB
- Usado para
- emergency position-indicating radio beacon
- Definição1
- A device, usually carried on board maritime craft, that transmits a distress signal that alerts search and rescue authorities and enables rescue units to locate the scene of the distress.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual. Volume II: Mission Co-ordination. Montreal, 2013. (Doc. 9731)
- Definição2
- A device used to alert search and rescue services in the event of an emergency by transmitting a coded message on the 406 MHz distress frequency, which is relayed by the CospasSarsat global satellite system.
- Fonte2
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Helicopter flying handbook (FAA-H8083-21A). Washington, DC: FAA, 2012..
- Fonte3
- 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.
- Nota adicional1
- Information regarding this term is a result of researches developed by DECEA in cooperation with ANAC.
- Subárea1
- Search and Rescue
- Português
- radiobaliza de emergência indicadora de posição