EGU Air Space

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EGU Air Space

• Free access to airspace

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European Air Space Considerations

• Very diverse Air Space usage
• London Heathrow vs. Kirkeness Norway
• Alp Region vs. Netherlands
• Strong Air Sports Nations vs. Small (by number)
• Europe is a not uniform and does not have to be
• In terrain
• air sports culture
• Civil/ military cooperation
• Air Traffic Management

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Thermal airways in Germany
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Airspace Considerations

• Lower Airspace ( Ground - xxx ?)
• complex patchwork
• restrictive vertical division to controlled
  airspace above
• Large, inflexible TMAs
• Sometimes over-controlled by Air Traffic Control
  ATC
• Conflicts with high speed military aircraft

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Airspace Harmonisation

• Flexible use of air space
• air space design must consider all users
• Use of International Civil Aviation Organisation
  (ICAO) air space classification
• Air space classes should have same rules in all
  European Commuity countries
• Harmonized publication of Visual Flight Rules
  (VFR) air space rules in the national
  Aeronautical Information Publications (AIP)

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European Air Space Harmonisation

• Eurocontrol Air Navigation Strategy
• ICAO Airspace classification
• A,B,C,D,E,F,G
• Few countries in Europe use (A,B,F(HX))
• different rules within the same category (WX, VFR
  access rules)
• Single European Sky Air traffic management
  Research
• Research of Future Air Traffic Management Tools

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Air Space classification tool box

• New subgroup to ANT Air Navigation Team
• Harmonize the existing ICAO classes
• Harmonisation of Class E WX access rules
• Controlle Zone Class D WX access rules
• Describe tool box items
• TMZ-Transponder Mandatory Zone
• Use of Time sharing (HX)

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Air Space Infringment

• most Infringments are said to be done by GA.
  Again statistics 1600
• the Plan is to reduce infringments by
• Pilot education
• Free issue of VFR charts
• Mandatory membership in Aero Clubs
• Mandatory Transponder use

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Commercial Air traffic

• sharp decline gt 10
• Expected to be worse than after 911
• Might take until 2015 to be inline with present
  growth
• Influence on to GA unknown

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VFR Security-NEASCOG

• Meeting in Dec. 2008
• Letter bei EAS to intervene
• Some issue of the paper
• Flight plan for everybody
• Transponder for everybody
• Vetting (background check)

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concerns for the future

• Lack of sufficient, contiguous, airspace for VFR
  cross country flight (better analyses of VFR
  needs)
• Use of airports not used today (low cost
  carriers)
• Unnecessary complexity of airspace (lack of
  harmonization)
• Need of a low power transponder !
• Cost of equipment (8.33, Mode-S)
• Lack of Flexible Use Airspace implementation
• Denial of access (even when equipped and/or
  airspace is unused)
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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The EAS Presidents final word at the Air Sports
meeting on Dec. 1st 2006 at Eurocontrol

• Above all, access to airspace and oceans and
  oceans of free airspace

Pilots are capable of adapting to unusual
situations, as this is one of the challenges why
we fly.