Civil Air Support
Serving The Community
Category: Aerial Photography & Survey
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Civil Air Support (CAS) has supported British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and the Port of London Authority (PLA) in a major multi-agency operation to monitor and protect a pod of around 25 long-finned pilot whales which entered the Thames Estuary. The unusual presence of the whales in the tidal Thames created a significant risk…
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As prolonged hot, dry weather continues to increase the risk of wildfires across the UK, volunteer pilots from Civil Air Support are helping emergency services by providing an unexpected but valuable early warning capability from the air. Whilst the majority of Civil Air Support’s missions are planned in response to requests from partner organisations and…
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Civil Air Support crews were active across Scotland yesterday, monitoring the impact of extensive flooding following extreme weather over the weekend. Our response featured up to seven aircraft operating simultaneously over the Highlands, Tayside, Fife and Forth Valley areas and the collection of hundreds of images and videos of the on-going incident. Civil Air Support’s…
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As the Environment Agency together with Somerset County Council declares a ‘major incident’ on the vulnerable Somerset Levels, Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) up and down the country continue to maintain a cautious watch in anticipation of further flood warnings. Current concerns are centered around the Southwest and along the South coast, where higher-than-average rainfall has…
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Five trillion pieces of plastic debris have found their way into seas and onto beaches around the world, threatening the health of users and damaging the marine biodiversity that depends upon unpolluted sea and shores for survival. It’s a global problem but perhaps there’s a local solution. Through marine education, beach monitoring and community cleaning…
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Giving these two deep low-pressure systems friendly names has done little to disguise their destructive power. With wind gusts reaching 90 miles per hour in some parts of the UK, the Met Office is warning of significant disruption and a danger to life. We all hope that loved ones will remain safe, but asset owners…
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A Civil Air Support (CAS) aircraft recently assisted the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service by aerial photo mapping the aftermath of a huge wildfire in the Highlands of Scotland. The crew involved tried something new for us – the systematic pattern photography of a vast area of ground with subtle overlap. Technically, the hundreds of…
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The animals were spotted close to the shore between Burghead and Findhorn during a coastal pollution survey by a Civil Air Support team. John Bisset photographed the sharks from a light aircraft piloted by Toni Hausler as CAS supported the Scottish Coastal Rubbish Aerial Photography (SCRAPbook) project. Scottish Natural Heritage said it was “fairly unusual” to see…