Wales Air Ambulance is deploying Altitude Angel’s Approval Services platform allowing drone operators the ability to request and pay for operations which involve taking-off and landing from a landowner’s property.
Wales Air Ambulance provides medical assistance to people across Wales and relies on charitable donations to raise GBP11.2 million every year to keep its helicopters in the air and rapid response vehicles on the road. The charity’s four helicopters and fleet of vehicles attend thousands of missions annually, covering rural countryside, towns, and cities, along the Welsh coastline and across vast mountain ranges.
The Approval Service platform will deploy across two of the charity’s airbases, Cardiff Heliport, and its headquarters at Dafen. Approval Services allows drone operators to submit flight plans, which take place wholly or in part, within an airport’s FRZ or require take-off and landing permissions from a landowner, quickly and securely, as well as facilitating any charges the airport/landowner have in place when a flight is approved.
Deborah Stephens, Wales Air Ambulance’s Airbase Manager, said the platform will help ensure the safety of the charity’s crews and other airspace users on and in the vicinity of the airbases as well as managing drone flight request permission and standardisation of the process for all parties.
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