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Cows getting bigger
One can hardly pile huge amounts of blame on the F15 guy. This reads like one monumental airspace coordination and planning cock-up.
Lots of assumptions made -
- 'it is an active danger area so its sterile for us'
- 'Everyone knows we allow IFR flights on upper air routes through _our_ danger areas'
- 'I am receiving a radar service so I will be vectored clear of any traffic'
- 'The exercise aircraft understand our non-standard phraseology'
- etc
The plan is to move away from 'static' airspace reservations and air routes toward 'business trajectories' and Flexible Use of Airspace. Exercise areas will be explicitly set up with their own rules and the controllers' conflict detection software will provide deconfliction advice to ensure that aircraft that do not meet the reserved airspace rules avoid the airspace volume. That is the theory anyway
This means that grandfathered-in letters of agreement and memoranda of understanding and even locally developed quick fixes - will be replaced by the FUA protocols. So this type of administrative 'misunderstanding' should not happen in the future airspace systems.
Currently that is the vision for ~10 years time in European airspace.