Airspace and traffic management covers the policies, standards, regulations, and processes needed to support new airspace users. It must maintain an airspace and traffic management environment that is safe, efficient, provides fair access and operates across all airspace users. This includes:
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airspace structure
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rules of the air
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separation and conflict management (such as detect and avoid technologies)
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traffic management
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airports, vertiports and vertipad operations
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equipage and information exchange.
What we want to achieve
We aim to create an integrated national airspace across all airspace classes. This will be based on a risk and performance-based approach that has minimal restrictions on user access to achieve an acceptable level of safety performance that is agnostic of the type of aircraft or pilot.
The activities identified in the roadmap must be informed by other National Emerging Aviation Technologies (NEAT) Policy Statement initiatives. This includes Australian Future Airspace Framework (AFAF), the Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) action plan and the Airservices Flight Information Management System.