The table below gives an overview of the delivery elements that structure the delivery plans set out in Part 2 and (in due course) Part 3 of the Airspace Modernisation Strategy (AMS).
There are nine elements arranged under two headings: aircraft-based navigation and airspace management. The 15 initiatives from the 2018 AMS, delivery of which will continue, are subsumed into these nine elements.
More information is in AMS Part 2 and the linked database.
| Category | AMS delivery elements | 2018 AMS initiatives further developed through these elements |
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| Aircraft-Based Navigation | UK-ABN/1. Trajectory-based operations | 2, 7, 8, 11, 14 |
Overarching principle: implementing government policy on minimising the environmental impacts of aviation within the context of supporting |
| UK-ABN/2. Terminal airspace redesign | 4, 5, 14 | ||
| UK-ABN/3. Network management | 3, 6 | ||
| UK-ABN/4. Integration | 3, 9, 10, 11 | ||
| Airspace Management | UK-AM/5. Airspace management | ||
| UK-AM/6. Data services | 13, 15 | ||
| UK-AM/7. Future surveillance and spectrum | 11, 12 | ||
| UK-AM/8. Integration of communications, navigation, surveillance & spectrum | 12, 13, 14, 15 | ||
| UK-AM/9. Aircraft capabilities | New |
Notes:
Initiative 1 (Direct Route Airspace) in the 2018 AMS is complete. More detail on delivery elements UK-ABN/1 to /4 and UK-AM/5 to /9 is shown in AMS Part 2 and the linked database.
More detail on the 15 initiatives from the 2018 AMS is in the annual AMS progress reports.
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