Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines. Tony has covered avionics, unmanned vehicles, the supply chain and cyberwarfare.
The London Heliport in Battersea currently enjoys an exemption from EASA rule CAT.POL.H.305, which defines additional monitoring rules that operators need to adopt when flying helicopters where there is no assured safe forced-landing capability available.
The move which comes four years after the United States decided not to procure the system, will see Meads replace Germany’s PAC-3 Patriots in the early 2020s.
