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FASVIG is now well established and in its second year of operation, with over 500 members – including a number who are active in helping to drive forward the various packages of change that are broadly linked to the CAA’s Future Airspace Strategy (FAS). With the experiences of the first year of operation in mind […]
The FASVIG Implementation Programme contains a number of airspace efficiency enablers. Package ATA.7 entitled “UAS Policy Compatible with VFR Operations” was enabled during FASVIG year 1 work and sought to initiate dialogue with the UAS community to seek to improve mutual understanding. This successful engagement led to further funding being agreed in year 2 work, […]
As part of its programme to deliver operational improvements to aircraft flying VFR, FASVIG has been working with the CAA to publicise the availability and use of listening squawks and lower airspace radar services. In support of the airspace infringement seminar held in London last year, FASVIG analysed airspace infringement data from across the country […]
As part of its programme to deliver operational improvements to aircraft flying VFR, FASVIG identified that the airspace between Solent and The Channel Islands needed to be modernised. The lower levels or Airway Q41, which had a base of FL35, were barely used by commercial aircraft but because it was Class A airspace, VFR aircraft […]