What we do?
Sky Watch Civil Air Patrol and its partner UK Air Search CIC provide a number of services listed below.
All these high value missions are completed at minimal cost by small fixed-wing aircraft, autogyros and small helicopters carrying digital cameras with the means to transmit real time images to the ground.
- Air search for missing and vulnerable persons
- Damage assessment following an environmental emergency
- Priority transport for small items of time critical freight
- Air to ground imagery following serious flooding
- Air support and training for inshore lifeboats, mountain and lowland rescue teams
- Aerial inspection of critical/vulnerable infrastructure
- Hi-bird radio relay during search search and rescue operations
- Traffic and crowd monitoring
- Information on emergency vehicle access
- Monitoring remote areas including countryside, road, rail and waterways.