Keep in mind the Lakenheath drone scare final November that created no drone zones throughout the UK.
Effectively 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 then again 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 a substitute of claiming it was a MOR. I’ve since gone by the Airprox board course of and my FOIA was worded accurately to have revealed the NPAS incident that passed off 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 quite a lot of Luton inbound visitors.
The Police
Ian has a comply with up FOIA in:-
Pricey 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 can 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 couple of questions in relation to the incident.
1) The flight monitoring information on public providers that monitor air visitors, recommend the encounter with the NPAS and suspected drone occurred as soon as the helicopter had flown in direction of and over Newmarket, may you verify if so and if not present as exact a location and time as you possibly can for the place the opposite plane was first clearly recognized as a possible drone.
2) Given a drone exhibits up nicely on the EO/IR and the NPAS helicopters are geared up with very succesful FLIR models, may you verify the mannequin of EO/IR on this explicit 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 army jet sort drone, a industrial grade multirotor, or a hard and fast wing FPV fashion drone, if not one of the above may you categorise it as finest as potential.
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 prompt the suspected drone was flying at a number of thousand ft which isn’t explicit seemingly with many shopper grade drones resulting from flight instances concerned in flying up, flying round then getting again down once more. May you verify the peak the suspected drone was at.
5) Given NPAS has had success various time pursuing drones again to their touchdown location and a helicopter is way extra succesful than a drone, with far superior velocity, climate/peak functionality and flight time, in response to data you maintain, why was the drone not pursued again to its touchdown location? I’m positive there’s an excellent motive.
6) Did the USAF make any request for the NPAS to desert its mission or clear the realm the place it was looking? There was a suggestion from the radio comms on social media this will have been the case.
Yours faithfully,
I Hudson
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