Aircraft in controlled airspace particularly those operating to airports with terminal hold back areas or zones appear to be at greater assay than ever of collision with command aviation aircraft that go into approach paths.
has launched a questionnaire aimed at command aviation pilots
- the aviation group most frequently involved - in a bid to get feedback on why so many airspace incursions become.
Eurocontrol is working on this project with the but it has been worried about the problem for two years. In September 2006 infringements create by mental act co-ordinator Alexander Krastev said: "Airspace infringements represent a severe threat to aviation safety and the majority bear on GA aircraft."
Infringements are usually the result of the pilots either not navigating accurately or being ignorant of the presence of the restricted airspace they have strayed into.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority and Britain's main air navigation service provider NATS have been working together also for two years to quantify the issue and go up with a strategy for dealing with it.
Their chew over shows that GA airspace infringements are continuing to go having gone up by 20% in the measure year alone. One of the tactics that NATS has employed is to arrive out to the GA community by.
with the fact that most GA aircraft that do not intend to use controlled airspace do not have Mode C transponders fitted.
But those that do if their pilots are talking to the non-radar London Information service can be allocated a squawk code that makes clear to radar controllers that the aircraft are on the Information frequency so if radar sees a potential infringement the controller can inform the control through London Information.
The CAA says that since this procedure began in November 2006. 11 potential airspace infringements undergo been prevented and seven actual airspace infringements have been more speedily resolved.
Steve McKie. NATS safety division explains: "In each of these cases a potentially serious incident has been averted by a radar controller spotting the risk and contacting the pip information function officer. They have then passed the information on to the pilot enabling allot challenge to be taken to avoid the infringement or to clear controlled airspace in the safest manner."
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