It will be RAF as it mentions an A400M Atlas.
i noticed the a400m atlas, flew from sweden this evening.
If not the RAF, an allied air force that flies Atlas. What they will actually be doing is anyone’s guess, and my view is that it’s the military’s business and none of mine…
Rather large part of Scotland being covered for what looks like Exercise Talon Highlander
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I still can’t get my stupid computer to display the whole map
The circle is for a glider competition. And I’m driving up that way on Tuesday, then back on Thursday. Will need to make sure I pack my dslr and 300 lens!!!
To do that I use a 4k screen … but set up the location on a much smaller window, zoom out to the limit of NOTAM being visible, then click on Full Screen and it displays the data already loaded.
If you move it after going full screen, it all vanishes because of the HUGE amount of data it would have to load for all layers over such a large area.
Labour party conference. You can guarantee something interesting will go in or come out of the shipyard on the other side of the river in that time.
Wasnt me.
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Ahh Merseyside Police are afraid if a drone collides with Starmer’s head, it might knock some bloody sense into him 
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You could crash a bloody 737 in his head and it won’t make one bit of difference. 
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If you work to the assumption that none of us would fly in NOTAM airspace, the drones siezed by the Liverpool 5-0 are either cheapo Amazon specials flown by people who haven’t understood the rules, or genuine espionage/terrorist/security-related flying. But probably Amazon £20 specials.
I reckon these are likely to account for a lot of the ‘drone in near-miss with aircraft at 20’000ft’ type of reports. If you can fly a drone, and it doesn’t have to be a good one, at 20’, 40’, 100’, then there is little reason to think that you could not fly it straight up verticaly as long as the battery lasts and the air is dense enough for the prop blades to bite on. I’d guess that to be about 12,000 feet, way beyond VLOS, and why should the pilot, who may have been given the drone as a present or not studied the manual as far as any reference to rules or restrictions and doesn’t know he’s not supposed to exceed 400’ even where he can legitimately fly, not fly as he/she sees fit? Because it’s against the law, dangerous, and he/she can be heavily penalised for doing it of course, and ignorance of the law is no defence, but it is worrying!
I doubt whether an Amazon £20 drone would reach 1000ft. Probably pushing it to reach a couple of hundred feet at most. 
I’m not so sure. If it can climb, it will continue to do so until the air gets too thin or the battery runs out. They usually have about 10mins per battery flying time, so even if the pilot came back after 5 minutes to have enough juice to land, if the drone can climb at 20mph that’s 1.000’ on a calm day, 2,000 if it’s a suicide mission. At those heights, you’ll be mixing it with light aircraft and helicopters.
Strong winds will reduce the height achieved, but even so 500’, but even so several hundred feet are likely.
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Hmmm you did say 20,000ft
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That depends on the nature of the NOTAM.
The vast majority are just a Notice of something to be aware of and one can happily fly within them.
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