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This project continues from Skyverse’s previous AMS Support Fund project (Light GA digitisation of flight data). It will demonstrate three further capabilities in relation to the enhanced use of flight intent data. These are ‘Route Validation Capture’, ‘Route Validation Sharing’ and ‘Flight Intent Actioning’. The project is designed to test new technologies that could fundamentally change the way the UK builds a low cost, digital picture of visual flight rules (VFR) and flight intentions without either impacting a pilot's right to roam nor mandating any new requirements of them.

This project is now complete. To view the final reports, email airspace.modernisation@caa.co.uk.

This project will further develop, deploy and gain test data on a transformational new airspace technology: PDAR (Passive Detection and Radar). This carries benefits such as reduction of CO2 emissions, increased efficiency in traffic routing and greater airport capacity.

The objective of the proposed project “Dragon’s Eye” is to perform end-to-end experimental flight testing of lower airspace Flight Information Service (FIS) procedures and surveillance technology options in the context of the illustrative use cases defined in the AMS for routine beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) and General Aviation (GA) flight in Class G airspace.

This project is focused on enhancing extended arrival management techniques to achieve two sets of benefits targeted in the AMS:

• To further reduce the level of stack holding at the main UK capacity-constrained airports
• To stream arriving aircraft prior to the top of descent

Stansted Airport will be used as the test case for this project.

This multi-phase project will build on the existing Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Sandbox trial. It will introduce methodologies to fully exploit the testing potential of a 60km construction corridor. The project will use Temporary Reserved Airspace (TRA) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying Electronic Conspicuity (EC) devices to facilitate risk quantification. The final goal of the project will be to see UAVs operated along the corridor BVLOS in fully integrated airspace.

This project aims to develop the Concept of Operations (ConOps) and requirement set for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled tool capable of identifying, classifying, and managing suitable volumes of airspace to accommodate Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations.

This project will resolve the ‘Reduced Night Noise’ (RNN) trial issues, and thereby develop guidance on PBN arrivals implementation to Future Airspace Strategy Implementation (FASI) airports, so that they can deliver the expected noise benefits. This activity will focus on simulations (not a trial) because this offers more flexibility. To complement the simulations, modelling will be undertaken to confirm the noise benefits of these procedures (as this is not measured in the simulations) and this will also confirm the carbon benefits of the procedures.

The RDD Research Project was conducted in 2023 with support from the AMS Support Fund to produce a UK Minimum Standard for the angle of divergence required between Performance-based Navigation (PBN) departure routes to achieve a given interval (or split time) between successive aircraft taking off from the same runway end. This project will use a third-party organisation to validate the research.

The scope of the ECITP Stage 3 concentrates on four related workstreams that build on the successes of Stages 1 and 2 to maximise the potential for electronic surveillance networks such as the one established at Goodwood Aerodrome to enable Airspace Integration. These are:

• System adaptations to protect against Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference,
• Developing and testing software and processes for assessing the performance of Automatic Dependent Service Broadcast (ADSB) emissions from aircraft
• Enhancing situational awareness via Traffic Information Service-Broadcast (TIS-B)
• Creation of an Air Traffic Density Analysis Tool

This project will develop and implement a web-based Flight Path Design Visual Repository (DVR) that is intended to enhance the development, engagement, and consultation aspects of all Airspace Change Proposals (ACPs) required to deliver airspace modernisation in the UK. The Flight Path DVR aims to deliver a step change in the UK’s approach to options development, community outreach and airspace integration, especially for larger, more complex modernisation ACPs like those included in the four regional clusters of the UK Airspace Change Masterplan (the Masterplan).