Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Another nail in the coffin of Single European Sky . Here we are in 2021 , not having ben able to enforce a Data link standard , more than 25 years after its development! And all those wonderful tools SESAR is promising will not work without a proper data link. I am glad I am retired ..
Not quite, actually the opposite as (slow) FANS 1/A was neither supported by any continental ANSP, nor mandated by the DLS-IR 29/2009
(nor designed for high density airspace). As a mater of the fact MUAC is now finally concentrating on ATN only, which has reached 75% equipage,
while the natural outflow of remaining legacy FANS 1/A only aircraft is accelerating following the pandemic. SES concentrating on ATN while
Base Line 2 with EPP sharing is now around the corner.