Keep in mind the Lakenheath drone scare final November that created no drone zones throughout the UK.
Nicely the drone was 10 miles away from RAF Lakenheath, it was within the Newmarket space. The police helicopter additionally has video of the suspected drone.
Ian Hudson requested questions of the CAA and the Nationwide Police Air Service (NPAS) and it needs to be stated that the police have been very useful.
The Civil Aviation Authority alternatively much less so.
Ian said, “Because it was an MOR logged, I think CAA have been being evasive on my FOIA, saying there was no Airprox as an alternative of claiming it was a MOR. I’ve since gone by means of the Airprox board course of and my FOIA was worded accurately to have revealed the NPAS incident that came about on a mission that was tasked initially to Lakenheath. But the CAA denied a drone incident had been logged.”
ADS-B tracks recorded by Mark Dale present the police helicopter arriving from the south, turning round simply earlier than Lakenheath and orbiting Newmarket. It additionally exhibits a substantial amount of Luton inbound visitors.
The Police
Ian has a observe up FOIA in:-
Expensive Rebecca (Nationwide Police Air Service),
I wished to easily submit a single FOIA, however I’m splitting it in two as I think the media may have already requested for the video from the helicopter for this incident (which is the subject of the opposite FOIA) so this FOIA is asking a number of questions in relation to the incident.
1) The flight monitoring knowledge on public companies that observe air visitors, recommend the encounter with the NPAS and suspected drone occurred as soon as the helicopter had flown in the direction of and over Newmarket, might you affirm if so and if not present as exact a location and time as you’ll be able to for the place the opposite plane was first clearly recognized as a possible drone.
2) Given a drone exhibits up properly on the EO/IR and the NPAS helicopters are outfitted with very succesful FLIR items, might you affirm the mannequin of EO/IR on this specific NPAS.
3) Does the video seize the opposite plane clearly sufficient to know for sure it’s a drone, if that’s the case what sort of drone is it, a navy jet kind drone, a industrial grade multirotor, or a set wing FPV fashion drone, if not one of the above might you categorise it as greatest as doable.
4) The radio comms on the time was overheard by civilians in close by cities and discussions on this have been posted to social media, the comms instructed the suspected drone was flying at a number of thousand toes which isn’t specific possible with many client grade drones on account of flight instances concerned in flying up, flying round then getting again down once more. Might you affirm the peak the suspected drone was at.
5) Given NPAS has had success a lot of time pursuing drones again to their touchdown location and a helicopter is much extra succesful than a drone, with far superior velocity, climate/peak functionality and flight time, in keeping with info you maintain, why was the drone not pursued again to its touchdown location? I’m positive there’s an excellent cause.
6) Did the USAF make any request for the NPAS to desert its mission or clear the world the place it was looking out? There was a suggestion from the radio comms on social media this will likely have been the case.
Yours faithfully,
I Hudson
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