NATS Consultation - London Olympics Airspace proposal

[Flying Lawyer]

NATS opened an 8-week consultation on the Olympics Temporary Controlled Airspace Proposal today. It will close on Thursday 26th May 2011.
Any interested party may respond.

The proposal is to implement temporary airspace restrictions from 0800 (local) Monday 16th July (the week before the Games open) until 2000 (local) Wednesday 15th August 2012 (three days after they close).
Details:
Proposal to establish Temporary Controlled Airspace for the London Olympics (http://www.nats.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/London2012OlympicsCASTConsultation.pdf)

The consultation will primarily be managed via email. The consultation document contains instructions in the paragraph "How do I respond?", and an email response template is provided.

Response Template
Reply to [email protected] deleting text as applicable, and supplying the grounds for your response in free text at the end.
Re: London 2012 Olympics Temporary Controlled Airspace Consultation

I am responding on behalf of [name of organisation]
or
I am responding personally as a member of the public

We agree / do not agree that any personal details contained within this response may be sent to the CAA as part of the Airspace Change Proposal.

I/we object to the Olympics Airspace proposal
I/we have no objection to the Olympics Airspace proposal

The grounds for my/our response are:


(Insert supporting text)




NB: More than one airspace consultation may be in progress at any time. You should respond separately to each consultation or your response may not be included in the feedback report.


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[mikehallam]

Three Cheer for Consultation !

More pertinent & immediate to many strips/flyers in the S.East is H.M. imposition of a virtual Olympics PLUS, no-fly zone aound the Home Counties lasting two months, from July to Sept. next Summer.

Those of us who have written requesting some alleviation to the approriate CAA Olympics address have received their polite acknowledgements with the Caveat that unfortunately it's not their dictat, but the Home Office who published the Ban.

Never-the-less the CAA sympathise & will try for concessions at a meeting next week. The LAA & BMAA are attempting to be heard too, on behalf of their members.

mikehallam

[Zulu Alpha]

This proposal is for consultation on 9 different restricted areas.
Are these replacing the whole large restricted area which was released a few weeks ago.

I am slightly confused on how this fits with the announcement ~2 weeks ago.

[L'aviateur]

The NATS airspace proposal looks fairly reasonable, it's not hard to understand why they need to do it. At least it's not a month of Class A covering the whole of the South East!

[rocco16]

Zulu Alpha, there are three sets of restrictions involved - the main CAS being lowered across the region, the Home Office security Prohibited and Restricted Zones and now these for traffic into secondary airfields.

Perhaps the fact it is coming out at different times in different ways leads to confusion. Perhaps the VFR flight plan and approval in the Home Office scheme will give you automatic CAS VFR transit clearance!!! (My tongue was rather in my cheek there!)

[soaringhigh650]

I am pleased there ain't gonna be much Class A except at the highest levels. :ok:

But the separate restricted/prohibited airspace thing and its 2-hour flight plan filing requirement can do better. They should reduce that to 15 mins.