There are lots of stakeholders that talk about airspace in the UK, but often understandably from the viewpoint of their organization; the SAC represents no vested interest groups. Achieving inclusive airspace requires interactive dialogue, to allow industry – the actual users of the airspace – the freedom to co-create solutions that are not put out for consultation but have been arrived at together. To do this requires data-rich evidence that all parties can agree has been sourced and analyzed fairly. Then and only then can progress be made.
Shared Airspace Council
The future of aviation and technology, its application & exploitation, and airspace use continues to evolve and it is critical that the rate of change is matched by the stakeholders opportunity to help define what good looks like – all airspace should be safe, integrated, and inclusive.
”The SAC was formed to provide a platform at which issues surrounding the safe integration for all airspace users can be considered, discussed and evidenced.
Shared Airspace Council
If you want to go fast, go alone;
If you want to go far, go together
The SAC is not looking to supplant or supersede the excellent work of extant individual interest groups, aviation groups, governing bodies or industry representatives or authorities, and the regulator. Rather, the SAC looks to utilize the experience and active participation of said groups, associations, and individuals to build the case, through consideration of propositions, papers, and Regulations in the generation of evidence and a position that is, through consensus, recommended to be adopted in helping take the use of airspace forward.
Stakeholders
General aviation users
The wide range of non-commercial carriers using the airspace, including light aircraft, gliders, parachutists and model aircraft users.
Uncrewed aircraft users
The new entrants, and existing drone operators, who fly their aircraft remotely, and in the future will start to fly autonomously.
Airline companies
The primary commercial uses of high-altitude airspace and approaches and departures to and from airports, who are flying for commercial purposes.
Real estate owners
Landowners, over whose land these aircraft will fly, determined by the heights airspace approved including airports and other airspace features.
The SAC is not, nor does it have any aspirations to be a type of regulator, industry body or representative body. The SAC wishes to support the development of evidence-based cases, positions and recommendations that help unite the approach to the general use of airspace (both here in the UK and with potential to be adopted abroad) and the safe integration of all airspace users. The SAC will have completed its task once airspace is fully integrated.
Placeholders
The UK government has just published its Review of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
Of note, the Shared Airspace Council (SAC) provided upon request two Board members as delegates, and as the aviation industry's burgeoning representative body on the…
