18 February 2021 - 13 May 2021 Leeds East Airport (LEA) is seeking to introduce instrument approach procedures (IAPs) to two of its runways. These approaches are intended to support the development of the airport into a Business and Executive Aviation hub for North Yorkshire, permitting safe use of the airport under a wider [...]
21 January 2021 - 12 March 2021The MOD is supporting the deployment of the Protector prototype into the UK airspace in the summer of 2021. Protector is the large RPAS MQ-9B, named SkyGuardian, with 79 ft wingspam and MTOW of 5670 kg. SkyGuardian will be operated from 2 locations in the UK this summer, both [...]
21 January 2021 - 11 February 2021. n September 2020 the City of Derry airport was looking to make to the way in which aircraft arrive at the airport, by introducing arrivals, missed approach, and airborne holding procedures which use satellite technology to navigate instead of relying on old, ground-based navigation aids. Stage 2A of CAP1616 [...]
Consultation: 21 January 2021 - 8 February 2021.NATS is consulting on an airspace change proposal that is seeking to introduce Free Route Airspace within airspace where Air Traffic Services (ATS) have been delegated to the IAA and DSNA. This airspace is in the southwest of the UK UIR from FL245+, known as the PEMAK triangle (ATS [...]
Consultation: 11 January 2021 - 12 February 2021. The MoD has identified a requirement for the generation of new, suitable and safe airspace in the UK for modern military aircraft and systems to train to their full capabilities. As part of this process, the MoD seeks our views on the principles of the airspace [...]
Consultation: 23 December 2020 - 15 January 2021. This consultation is about a project that intends to gradually demonstrate that UAV Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) operations in non-segregated airspace are safe, can meet with regulatory approval, and integrate seamlessly with manned aviation, whilst still providing safe and efficient access to the airspace by [...]
Consultation: 7 December 2020 - 22 January 2021. The aim of this consultation is to seek the views on the introduction of a change in designation of airspace at and around the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre at Llanbedr Aerodrome, which is being used for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) of drones, electric aircraft, urban/regional air [...]
Consultation: 2 December 2020 - 12 January 2021.This consultation is on the approach to the next price control review for NATS (En Route) plc (NERL) in light of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Following CAA´s previous decisions on NERL’s price control in 2019 and subsequent reference to the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA), the [...]
Consultation: 30 November 2020 - 14 December 2020.NATS is proposing that ATS route M604 is extended from DET VOR to LYD VOR. This would replace the final segment of the Stansted LYD 6R/5S Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs), and hence would allow the removal of these SIDs. This change is necessary to remove the dependency on [...]
Consultation: 23 November 2020 - 31 January 2021. Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd. intends to develop a new offshore wind farm in the North Sea, Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas. Wind turbines could interfere with air traffic control radars. To mitigate against this interference, they are proposing to use Range Azimuth Gating blanking with a [...]
