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Airspace

Planning and regulation for UK airspace, including navigation and communications.
Licences for air traffic roles

Licences for air traffic roles

  • Air traffic controllers
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Air navigation services

Air navigation services

  • ATM IR
  • Certification and designation
  • Change management and notification process
  • NATS En Route plc NERL Licence
  • Contestability assessment
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  • Single European Sky interoperability requirements
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Airspace change

Airspace change

  • Airspace change process
  • Change proposals in the FASI S and FASI N programmes
  • Secretary of State call-in process
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  • Permanent airspace change proposals under CAP1616
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  • Temporary airspace change proposals and airspace trials currently being developed
  • Legislative framework to airspace change
  • Transitioning to the new airspace change process
  • Airspace classification
Communication, navigation and surveillance

Communication, navigation and surveillance

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Event notification

Event notification

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Airspace Modernisation Strategy

Airspace Modernisation Strategy

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  • About the strategy
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Future airspace strategy

Future airspace strategy

  • About the strategy
  • Targets and time scales
Rules of the air

Rules of the air

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