Safety Flash
Reintroduction of personal locator beacons on helicopter flights
Reintroduction of personal locator beacons on helicopter flights
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 08/09
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueHelicopter and Aviation
- Helicopter operations
- Personal locator beacons
Summary
This safety flash relays an Oil & Gas UK announcement that personal locator beacons should be reintroduced for offshore helicopter passengers from mid-July. It follows an earlier UK Civil Aviation Authority announcement stopping their use, previously covered in another IMCA safety flash.
Classifications: Helicopter operations; offshore aviation; rotary-wing operations.
Classifications: Personal locator beacons; PLB.
Summary
Members’ attention is drawn to the attached announcement from Oil & Gas UK regarding recent developments with personal locator beacons (PLBs) for passengers in helicopters, which states that it has been agreed that PLBs should be reintroduced on offshore helicopter flights from mid-July.
IMCA SF 08/09. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, helicopter and aviation.