Originally Posted by
Breathe
Why on earth would anyone want to trawl through a consultation document that doesn't actually tell you what airspace changes are proposed? The whole airspace change process, like so much nowadays, has become massively bureacratic and user-unfriendly.
It is supposedly designed so that it captures all possible consultees and keeps them fully informed and engaged. But in the most recent ACP in my neck of the woods the sponsor didn't bother to consult one of the ATSUs within the area; the CAA didn't pick up that they hadn't been consulted; and said ATSU only found out when they discovered the CAA approval letter. On the same ACP, the sponsor only applied for a change applying to the airspace above FL85, but in the documents submitted in support of the ACP the sponsor explicitly stated that they would also be operating at all levels down to surface level when the new airspace is activated. But were operators in that airspace consulted? No.