It would appear that the pilots of NPAS are in for a bit of retraining.
Yesterday in the House of Lords it was stated that helicopters are to be used to throw nets at drones.....
There was a lengthy discussion on drones and Gatwick and Baroness Sugg was apparently giving the skewed government view on the subject...... Bit of a House of Horrors of course..... as we know aircraft and helicopters prefer to land in the presence of drones but here we are with a Suggestion that includes nets .......tail rotors get together so well with stray bits of rope in the air.... mind blowing stuff.
Drones: Consultation Response - Statement (7 Jan 2019)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords...copter#g2112.1
Baroness Sugg: ...is the need for a proper, layered response to incidents such as this. We have physical mitigations such as nets, which can be launched either from the ground up to a certain height or from a
helicopter if at a higher height, but obviously that can be effective only if it is in the vicinity of the drone. The other things that we need are protection and tracing in order to ensure that we are...