{"id":63000,"date":"2017-06-29T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/blog\/\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:27:19","slug":"elt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/glossary\/elt\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Location Transmitter (ELT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ELT (emergency location transmitter) is installed by commercial and private aircraft manufacturers during the production phase. They\u2019re used as a locating aid in the event of an emergency landing. However, some ELTs may be installed on an aircraft later on, if deemed necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency location transmitters are an essential component of the international satellite system for search and rescue. Once activated by impact or high gravity forces, they transmit a distress signal. These signals can be detected by non-geostationary satellites then located by GPS or Doppler triangulation.<\/p>\n<h2>An ELT and the FAA<\/h2>\n<p>According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Regulations, all U.S. registered aircrafts must have an emergency locator transmitter installed. Throughout the world, similar aviation authorities have also established similar regulations.<\/p>\n<p>There are four main types of acceptable ELTs installed by commercial and private aircraft manufacturers. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Survival ELT<\/strong> \u2013 this ELT is removable in case downed aircraft survivors need to move to a safer location.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic deployable ELT<\/strong> \u2013 this ELT is attached to the aircraft and automatically activated on impact. It also features a manual activation switch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic portable ELT<\/strong> \u2013 this attached ELT automatically activates in the event of an emergency, but is removable from the aircraft as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic Fixed ELT<\/strong> \u2013 this permanently attached ELT activates automatically in the event of a crash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ELT (emergency location transmitter) is installed by commercial and private aircraft manufacturers during the production phase.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[978],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94029,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63000\/revisions\/94029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}