We were honoured to be asked to work with the BBC’s One Show team to assist in putting together an exclusive piece to accompany their interview with Gemma Dowler. Gemma has just written a book, My Sister Milly, speaking about her life and the trauma that her, and her family, went through when her sister was abducted and since.
We were to film in Yateley Heath Woods alongside the documentary crew, which is where Milly’s body was finally discovered six months after her disappearance. It was an undeniably beautiful woodlands although it has now of course been laced with sadness. We took time to capture the environment sensitively both through some of the woodlands and from an aerial perspective to contribute to that part of the her story.
It was a very a very difficult day for all of us…..
RIP …Milly Dowler
Why a Rooftop Solar Array Is Surveyed From the Air and Not From the Roof
A commercial rooftop solar array sits on somebody's working building, and that single fact decides how it gets inspected. Getting a person to roof level means access equipment and a permit, and the roof covering is not always capable of carrying them. It also puts the camera in the wrong place: IEC 62446-3 wants the thermal image taken square to the module, which nobody standing on a pitched roof can manage. Here is why the survey is flown instead.
Drone Terminology Explained: What the Words in a UK Quotation Mean
A quotation for aerial survey work arrives carrying an operating category, an authorisation reference, a competence certificate and a class mark, and it is tempting to skip past all of it to the price. Those terms are the part of the document that tells you what can actually be flown. This is the vocabulary you are likely to meet in a real quotation or a real conversation about permissions, in plain English, with the practical consequence of each attached.
How Close Can a Drone Fly to People and Buildings? The Ground Rules Behind a Commercial Booking
How close can a drone legally fly to people and buildings in the UK? This piece sets out the ground rules in plain terms: the Open category subcategories A1, A2 and A3, the 120 m height limit, the separation kept from uninvolved people and from residential, commercial, industrial and recreational areas, what "uninvolved" means for your own staff and visitors, and why a Specific category Operational Authorisation is what lets a commercial operator work closer on a busy site.
