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DAP is responsible for the planning and regulation of all UK airspace, including the navigation and communications infrastructure to support safe and efficient operations. DAP is staffed by civilian and military experts with experience of commercial, business, recreational and military aviation.
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DAP Sections
Details of the Sections within DAP and their responsibilities can be found via the link below.
Future Airspace Strategy (FAS)
To provide a policy structure to enable a modernised air traffic management system that provides safe, efficient airspace, that has the capacity to meet reasonable demand, balances the needs of all users and mitigates the impact of aviation on the environment.
European Initiatives
Key European Airspace Initiatives where DAP are a major contributor.
Airspace Safety Initiative
The Airspace & Safety Initiative (ASI) is a joint CAA, NATS, AOA, GA and MoD effort to investigate and tackle the major safety risks in UK airspace.
We are required to:
- Secure the most efficient use of airspace consistent with the safe operation of aircraft and the expeditious flow of air traffic.
- Satisfy the requirements of users of all aircraft and to take account of wider airspace interests.
- Take account of the environmental objectives set out in Guidance provided to the CAA by Government.
- To facilitate the joint and integrated UK Civil and Military Air Traffic Services underpinned by a Memorandum of Understanding between the CAA and the MoD and through the NATS Licence.
- To take account of national security and international obligations.
Our work includes:
- The approval, establishment and changes to controlled and segregated airspace.
- Approval of third party Instrument Flight Procedure designers, organisations and designs.
- Formulation, monitoring and enforcement of policy, standards, rules and regulations.
- Allocation of finite related resources including radio frequencies and secondary radar codes.
- Coordination of unusual aerial activities.
- Policy and planning for the provision of meteorological and aeronautical information services to UK civil aviation.
- Activities in the field of aviation and the environment carried out by our Environmental Research & Consultancy Department (ERCD), including noise contour modelling, noise monitoring and Government research.
Contact details for DAP
Directorate of Airspace Policy
K6, CAA House
45-59 Kingsway
London
WC2B 6TE
