Drones are now well known a well -known phenomenon in the Netherlands. You can buy them online or in the store and in principle everyone can fly with it. But the medical drone that is now being tested for a year between the hospital in Meppel and Zwolle is something different. Yesterday he flew for the first time.
“This drone is really made for reliability and for speed. It looks like a small plane,” says Kevin Woensdregt, drone operator at the ANWB, about the difference with a home-garden-and-kitchen drone.
For the vast majority of drones, at least for all drones without a permit, you must have the drone in sight when you fly. “We are not going to do that with the medical drone,” says Robert Tieman, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management (BBB). “The distance is also huge. That is really something new.”
The ANWB controls the drone, and that happens from the office in The Hague. The drone actually flies naturally, because it flies through a pre -programmed route on the basis of coordinates. “We have to do some work,” says Drone-Operator Woensdregt. “We are planning the route first. After that it is mainly the monitoring of air traffic and the drone.”
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