Permission to enter TRA
Recently I conducted air to air filming of an air ambulance over the course of a few days, for a TV documentry. They cover a rural area and rarely land in a city. They outrun us to the scene, we do a few orbits of the scene and then relocate halfway toward the hospital they intend to deliver the victim so we can film the landing.
Looks like we will return to shoot more footage for a longer period.
As most of you know, usually the air ambulance is in and out fairly quickly but on a major incident they may return to pickup more casulties or drop off additional medical staff.
In the somewhat unlikely eventuality of a major incident occuring a TRA could be activated which would prevent us returning to the incident with the air ambulance.
I'd like to think that a chief constable would be sympathetic to us filming the air ambulance at work and would make an exception for us to enter a TRA.
So the question is, what needs to happen for ATC to be aware of who we are and what we are doing so as to facilitate our (previously agreed with Chief Super) entry into a TRA?
Are TRAs now called RAT?
Mickjoebill