PODCAST: Richard Ellis of NATS on its recent white paper detailing integration of drones in UK’s low-level airspace

Our next pod­cast episode is live! This week, we were delight­ed to be joined by Richard Ellis, New Air­space Users Direc­tor at NATS Ser­vices.

In this episode, Richard talks about his role at NATS, the UK’s provider or air traf­fic con­trol ser­vices, and how it links to Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty. The com­pa­ny has recent­ly released a white paper enti­tled ‘Advanc­ing Avi­a­tion through Inte­gra­tion of Drones in the UK’s Low-Lev­el Air­space’, so Richard shares more infor­ma­tion on why it was cre­at­ed and the key take­aways.

The white paper also details the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of Project CAELUS, part of UKRI’s Future Flight Chal­lenge, so we talk about this and the impact the learn­ings can have on this emerg­ing indus­try. Aside from Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, we also find out how NATS envi­sion a thriv­ing low-lev­el air­space econ­o­my for indus­tries like health­care and logis­tics.

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