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 however 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 means of the Airprox board course of and my FOIA was worded accurately to have revealed the NPAS incident that befell 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 reveals quite a lot of Luton inbound site 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 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 just a few questions in relation to the incident.
1) The flight monitoring information on public providers that monitor air site visitors, counsel the encounter with the NPAS and suspected drone occurred as soon as the helicopter had flown in the direction of and over Newmarket, may you affirm if that is so and if not present as exact a location and time as you may for the place the opposite plane was first clearly recognized as a possible drone.
2) Given a drone reveals up effectively on the EO/IR and the NPAS helicopters are geared up with very succesful FLIR items, may 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 sort drone, a business grade multirotor, or a hard and fast wing FPV type drone, if not one of the above may 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 attributable to 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 numerous 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 line with info you maintain, why was the drone not pursued again to its touchdown location? I’m certain there’s an excellent purpose.
6) Did the USAF make any request for the NPAS to desert its mission or clear the realm the place it was looking out? There was a suggestion from the radio comms on social media this may occasionally have been the case.
Yours faithfully,
I Hudson
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