“Once in a Lifetime Drone Flights Offer” at Over 200 Historic Environment Scotland Sites

Stir­ling Cas­tle, the child­hood home of Mary Queen of Scots, is one of over 200 sites across Scot­land, to be intro­duc­ing a new and rev­o­lu­tion­ary “request to fly plat­form” for poten­tial­ly thou­sands of drone pilots, reports a press release. This is an unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­duct “once in a life­time flights” from some of the country’s most famous land­marks.

Until now, drone oper­a­tors have had to file a request to take off and land at one of His­toric Envi­ron­ment Scotland’s (HES) prop­er­ties that include, apart from Stir­ling Cas­tle, Edin­burgh, Black­ness and Doune Cas­tles via the HES web­site.

Now, giv­en that drone use is expo­nen­tial­ly increas­ing as the tech­nol­o­gy becomes more acces­si­ble and afford­able, and there­fore the num­ber of requests, the abil­i­ty to man­age and approve flights has out­grown the cur­rent sys­tem.

UK-based Alti­tude Angel, an award-win­ning provider of UTM (Uni­fied Traf­fic Man­age­ment) has come up with the answer.

Using its lat­est plat­form, drone oper­a­tors can sub­mit requests to fly at some of the world’s most famous cas­tles, cathe­drals and state­ly homes by going to the link: dronesafetymap.com . HES can then approve, decline or offer alter­na­tive flight times, depend­ing on the venue, its open­ing times, and events tak­ing place on the ground.

Appli­ca­tions for the first tranche of sites, which include Tan­ta­llon, Caerlave­rock and Hunt­ly Cas­tles, are now being accept­ed with fur­ther ones due to come online in future phas­es.

Stir­ling Cas­tle (Cred­it: HES)

Paul Spence, His­toric Envi­ron­ment Scot­land, Senior Film­ing and Pho­tog­ra­phy Man­ag­er, com­ment­ed, “Film­ing with drone offers a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to appre­ci­ate and cap­ture our sites from a whole new point of view. When revealed from above, it becomes even more appar­ent the work that went into cre­at­ing these prop­er­ties and how mag­nif­i­cent some of the shapes and designs of the prop­er­ties in our care real­ly are.”

He con­tin­ued, “By offer­ing oper­a­tors a once in a life­time oppor­tu­ni­ty to film in his­toric and famous loca­tions and land­marks, is some­thing we’re very proud to be lead­ing on.”

Chris Forster, the Alti­tude Angel COO, added, “Scot­land is blessed with some of the world’s most beau­ti­ful and icon­ic build­ings and scenery. To be able to cap­ture on film these sites, with the bless­ing of those trust­ed to man­age them, at a time and from a place which is ben­e­fi­cial to all, is some­thing we’re immense­ly proud to have helped bring about.”

Back­ground

Found­ed in 2014 by Richard Park­er and based in Read­ing, UK, Alti­tude Angel is lead­ing a con­sor­tium of busi­ness­es to build and devel­op a ‘drone super­high­way’ con­nect­ing air­space above Read­ing, Oxford, Coven­try, and Rug­by. 

This SKYWAY super­high­way net­work, using Alti­tude Angel’s patent­ed Arrow tech­nol­o­gy, will unlock the huge poten­tial offered by unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles and be a cat­a­lyst to enable growth in the urban air mobil­i­ty indus­try.

Chris Forster

The company’s UTM solu­tions also pow­er some of the world’s lead­ing ANSPs, avi­a­tion author­i­ties and Enter­pris­es, includ­ing NATS (Ser­vices) Ltd (UK), LVNL (Nether­lands) and Avi­nor (Nor­way), empow­er­ing them with new capa­bil­i­ties to safe­ly man­age and inte­grate drone traf­fic into nation­al oper­a­tions.

Mean­while, HES over­sees more than 300 prop­er­ties of nation­al impor­tance across Scot­land. It is at the fore­front of research­ing and under­stand­ing the his­toric envi­ron­ment and address­ing the impacts of cli­mate change on its future, inves­ti­gat­ing and record­ing archi­tec­tur­al and archae­o­log­i­cal sites and land­scapes across the coun­try.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.altitudeangel.com

https://www.historicenvironment.scot

(Images: HES/Altitude Angel)

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