Integration of drones into all airspace is an element of the CAA’s Airspace Modernisation Strategy. National Air Traffic Services (NATS), the UK’s leading provider of air traffic control commercial services, is consulting on its vision of supporting integrated airspace.  According to NATS, ‘OpenAir’ aims to provide a universal data sharing…

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Oxford Airport (fully described as ‘London Oxford airport’) intends to add RNAV approaches to both ends of its runway to facilitate ‘small-scale’ Commercial Air Transport (CAT) operations. CAA policies determine that controlled airspace is needed to facilitate that type of operation. Oxford airport has put forward an ACP Stage 1…

RAF Waddington’s Temporary Danger Area ACP-2023-003 designed to fill the gap before their main ACP-2019-018 goes live has been approved by the CAA. RAF Waddington’s Permanent Danger Areas ACP-2019-018 changed half way through the ACP process due to an MoD decision to relocate the RAF Aerobatic Team to RAF Waddington….

The CAA has previously consulted on volumes of airspace that could be reasonably released as Class G. As part of that ongoing process, the CAA is withdrawing its proposal to amend the base level of Daventry Control Area (CTA) 6 airspace due to concerns raised by NATS En-Route Plc (NERL),…

The CAA has published the report into the completed uAvionix ADS-B beacon trial that was supported by Burn Gliding Club, Cambridge Gliding Centre, Derbyshire and Lancashire GC, Lasham Gliding Society, and The Gliding Centre. The Executive summary includes; “Feedback showed that 978MHz UAT ADS-B Obstruction Beacons do deliver their function…

An Airspace Change Proposal (ACP) for a Temporary Danger Area (TDA) is under consultation with a closing date of 22 September 2023. The ACP is here. The two commercial drone companies intend to extend a previous Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) trial into a larger trial protected by segregated…

Refused access to airspace? Don’t shrug it off – report it. You can read more here.  

In recent months RAF Marham and RAF Lakenheath in East Anglia have become home to increasing numbers of Lockheed Martin F-35 (Lightning II) multirole combat aircraft. In routine airspace-use discussions with the military, the BGA has learnt and agreed to pass on that as part of their training, F-35 pilots…

Flying cross-country or even locally in some parts of the UK without a moving map can be extremely challenging from an airspace perspective. Which is why most glider pilots fly with a GPS moving map with audible and visual warnings etc. Like all technology, to be effective and safe a…