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Old 17th Oct 2020, 07:52
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NHS Drones conflicting with light aircraft?

I saw this news article this morning and wondered if any more technical details were available.

https://inews.co.uk/news/science/cor...ies-ppe-728099


The bit that concerned me was the "300 ft air corridor" between the hospital site in Chelmsford and the lab in Braintree. A direct route is mainly over open countryside but the approach to the lab passes within a very short distance of the active airstrip at Laindon. I'm not able to find much info about these machines, including any Electronic Conspicuity signals, but looking at their size a collision would be potentially catastrophic.

As this is likely to become much more common (Amazon etc ) does anyone here have a link to the actual operators so we can ask the question?
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