![]() ![]() It followed its flight plan and had successfully passed all the safety and viability studies elaborated by the European Defence Agency. The flight had been extensively prepared in detail for months beforehand, taking into account any unexpected situation that may arise on route either due to weather or other causes. ![]() The REAPER drone continued its flight, rising to flight level 230, an altitude of about 7 km, until it reaches the airspace under the responsibility of ENAIRE’s Control Centre in Barcelona, which took control of the drone before transferring it to DSNA’s Control Centre in Marseille to return back to its departure airfield via the Lion’s Gulf.įinally, the flight was transferred back to Bordeaux towards Cognac AFB, where it landed at 16:00 local time. Unlike a normal situation in which drones must operate exclusively within enclosed areas segregated from civilian traffic, this experimental flight was carried out without any dedicated airspace structure, flying alongside commercial planes. ENAIRE air traffic controllers with dron Reaper at Madrid Area Control Centre Drone militar FAF7802 crossing Spanish border From Madrid, civilian and military air traffic controllers successively controlled the flight and applied the regulatory separation between the drone and other air traffic flying in its vicinity, like for a normal aircraft. ![]() The MQ-9 REAPER drone, call-sign FAF7802, took off at 12:30 local time from Cognac AFB, located in the North of Bordeaux, and was taken into account by civil air traffic controllers of DSNA’s Bordeaux Control Centre to join the Spanish Boundary.Īfter flying over the Pyrenees, the REAPER was transferred to ENAIRE’s Control Centre in Madrid, flying towards Navarre, over the area of Bárdenas Reales and to Zaragoza. ![]()
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