16 March 2023
The CAA’s consultation on CAP1616 ends on March 19, so you only have a couple of days to finish wading through the regulatory treacle that is CAP1616 and make your views known.
If you’re not sure what CAP1616 is all about, the CAA’s sub-heading for the document says it’s ‘guidance on the regulatory process for changing the notified airspace design and planned and permanent redistribution of air traffic, and on providing airspace information’. So, that’s much clearer.
CAP1616 itself runs to 281 pages, almost all of which are heavy going. There are some diagrams to provide a bit of a break, but having stared at them for a while, I’m not sure they make things much clearer for those of us not permanently employed in airspace design, management and implementation.
To be fair, there is a video of a webinar held by the CAA which does explain the consultation in (mainly) plain language, although not so much that it can’t be used to play a game of acronym bingo.
Happily, some submissions have been made by people and organisations with the ability to consume and understand the document, and those submissions are online. We think the response submitted by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), hits the nail on the head, making it a good place to go for guidance and further thoughts.
Good luck.
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