Hoverscape’s mapping drone the first to fly in Army’s airspace
Hoverscape became the first civilian UAV operator to fly in Holsworthy restricted airspace recently when conducting an aerial survey for Laing O’Rourke. The engineering and construction company has been undertaking one of the largest capital works projects for the department of defence in 70 years, with the relocation of defence assets from Moorebank to Holsworthy army base.
The airspace surrounding Holsworthy is normally restricted to military aircraft, and only occasionally allows for civilian manned aircraft to enter. This was the first time a civilian UAV had been operated at the base, which meant special procedures had to be created and approved by Defence in Canberra. This included safety, communication and contingency procedures, allowing our UAV’s to operate without conflict with military operations. The operation was a huge success, conducted safely and efficiently due to extensive prior planning.
Our aviation background and extensive aviation experience assists us liaise effectively with air traffic control and to obtain approvals to operate in airspace in which special permissions are needed.
The data collected from our aerial survey will be processed by our partners at Propeller Aero to produce orthophotos, terrain height maps, as well as the full point cloud and downloadable DXF files for use in traditional desktop CAD packages.
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