This article provides an overview of the planning guidance in England relating to the Permitted Development (PD) of solar Photovoltaic (PV) projects, particularly commercial rooftop. The available planning guidance for [...]

What Are Obstacle Limitation Surfaces? The UK has [1] 129 licensed civil aerodromes (and even more unlicensed aerodromes). In order to protect aircraft against potential collision risk, it is necessary to [...]

Assessing glint and glare for ground level receptors including roads users and residents is almost always required for new solar developments within the UK that require planning permission. With respect [...]

RAF Objections Renewable energy developers in the UK regularly face objections from the Royal Air Force (RAF) /Ministry Of Defence (MOD). This is particularly common for wind developments due to [...]

An available low cost system for mitigating the effects of wind farms on air traffic control (ATC) radar systems. The system is made by C Speed based in Liverpool, New [...]

London City Airport does not follow the standard UK and International physical safeguarding rules for tall buildings. Instead, custom rules have been put in place in order to facilitate the [...]

Modern aviation infrastructure around the world is underpinned by sophisticated electronic equipment. This ranges from well-known apparatus like radar to lesser-known equipment such as Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), navigation beacons, [...]

Last month Vikram Solar successfully installed India’s first floating solar plant as part of a trial project. The PV solar manufacturing firm, who has headquarters in are Kolkata, wanted to [...]

In recent news it was mentioned that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requested that the overall height of four building developments in the city of Miami needs to be [...]

Wide Area Multilateration – usually shortened to WAM – is a surveillance system for monitoring aircraft. Presently, surveillance of aircraft is usually achieved by means of radar. Air navigation service [...]