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Not every organisation needs another software platform. Sometimes the requirement is simpler:  Can the potential helicopter landing site data be produced, maintained and delivered in a format that works inside existing operational systems?  For air ambulance organisations, emergency planners, military users and wider resilience teams, this can be a practical way to make landing site intelligence available without placing another […]

Air ambulance crews routinely operate into locations that were never designed as helicopter landing sites. A road traffic collision, rural casualty, industrial incident, sporting injury or medical emergency may require the aircraft to land in a field, public open space, school playing field, car park or other ad hoc location close to the incident. In […]

When a helicopter is operating into an unfamiliar area, the landing site decision is often made quickly, under pressure and with incomplete local knowledge.  In daylight, crews may be able to make much of that assessment visually. They can assess the ground, surrounding obstacles, approach options and local conditions from the air before committing to land. At night, that challenge […]

Across this series, the focus has been on Counter-UAS planning, understanding the environment, identifying vulnerabilities, siting capability effectively, and building layered resilience around the assets and activities that matter most.  This final article brings those themes together by looking at a wider operational challenge: how friendly UAS activity is planned and managed in an environment where hostile […]

In the previous articles in this series, the focus has been on planning, understanding the environment, and positioning capability effectively within it. The next step is to understand what is actually being protected and why not all parts of a site or operation carry the same consequences. This is where Counter-UAS planning needs to move […]