CivilMilitary coordination in France

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Civil-Military coordination in France

• ACAC Civil / Military coordination seminar
• Rabat, 15-16 September 2005

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• In France
• Civil Air Traffic Services
• and
• Military Air Traffic Services
• are separated and coordinated

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the Flexible Use of Airspace concept
developped by EUROCONTROL

• France fully adheres to

the Single European Sky regulations issued by
the European Commission

• which foresees the implementation of three
  levels of ATM coordination
• level one (strategic level)
• level two (pre-tactical level)
• level three (tactical or real
  time)

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A national civil-military body for decision
and coordination called  Airspace
Directorate  has been established

• At level 1 (strategic level)

• This body is chaired jointly by the civil
  Director (DGAC/DAST) and by the military
  Director (DIRCAM) in charge of ATM regulatory
  domains

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A national civil-military body for decision
and coordination called  Airspace
Directorate  has been established

• At level 1 (strategic level)

• This body is chaired jointly by the civil
  Director (DGAC/DAST) and by the military
  Director (DIRCAM) in charge of ATM regulatory
  domains

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This permanent high level strategic policy body
is in charge of

• At level 1 (strategic level)

• Re-assessment of current State airspace and
  route structures

• Planning of temporary airspace structures (TSAs,
  CBAs, CDRs)

• Establishment of negotiation procedures and
  priority rules in AMC

• Establishment of periodical review mechanism

• Evaluation of national Airspace Requirements.

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The  Airspace Directorate  is supported by
four regional committees with permanent
civil and military technical staff

• At level 1 (strategic level)

• For each airspace structure agreed by the
   Airspace Directorate 

• a joint regulatory text fixes limits and
  ICAO classification of the airspace
• a joint regulatory text fixes ATS to be
  provided to both GAT and OAT
• AIS publication is jointly agreed.

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In addition, the  Airspace Directorate 
is also responsible for

• At level 1 (strategic level)

issuing ATM orientation directives to the
civil and military ATS providers

• organising dialogue between regulators,
  providers and airspace users

harmonizing the French position on
airspace regarding european
proposals on airspace issues.
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• At level 2 (pre-tactical level)

• A national airspace management cell (AMC)
• called CNGE determines
• allocation of airspace structures to
• civil or military users, on a daily basis.

CNGE
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• At level 2 (pre-tactical level),
• this Airpace Management Cell (AMC)

• Collects and analyses all Airspace and Route
  Requests which may require temporary airspace
  segregation

• Allocates, after internal negociation, the
  airspaces identified as TSA, CBA and CDR with a
  daily notification through the Airspace Use Plan
  (AUP)

• Analyses afterwards the Use of Airspace

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• At level 2 (pre-tactical level)
• The rules for an optimal use of Airspace and a
  permanent dialogue, are

• Priorities to the General Air Traffic
• To improve Air Traffic Flow
• To adapt capacity to demand
• Taking into account  Black slots  when very
  heavy traffic (more than 130 of the capacity).

• Rescue clauses
• To limit the restrictions to OAT
• limitation of the number of black slots to those
  which are the most penalizing
• lateral and vertical partitioning of the areas
• limitation of simultaneously partitioning.

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• At level 2 (pre-tactical level) for an
  optimal use of Airspace and a permanent dialogue
  example of a negociation at D-1

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• At level 3 (tactical level or real time)

• Civil-Military coordination via DCCs (civilian
  unit of coordination in each military ATC centre)
• - real-time knowledge and representation of an
  area activity (activation and release)
• real-time coordination in favor of each GAT and
  OAT

• Direct link between controllers with
  identification of the caller two trials are in
  progress
• on automatic basis by computers
• on direct contact by phone

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• Synopsis of the french civil / military
  coordination

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Thank you for your attention

• ACAC Civil / Military coordination seminar
• Rabat, 15-16 September 2005