Consultation on the airspace change process

Closes 18 Dec 2025

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About you (Required)
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Proposal 1: Reduce, remove or amend Gateways (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 2: Define the role of proposer, change sponsor and partner (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 3: Create a new set of standard design principles which apply to all airspace change proposals (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 4: Reduce the number of appraisals by removing the initial options appraisal (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 5: Combine Stage 1 and Stage 2 of CAP 1616 into a single stage (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 6: Remove the requirement for the CAA’s assessment of the initial and full options appraisals (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
0 of 1 questions answered
Proposal 7: Reduce the number of metrics in the options appraisal (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 8: The UKADS provider would perform full and final options appraisals of the system end state against the baseline scenarios (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
0 of 4 questions answered
Proposal 9: The UKADS provider would assess the combined impacts, including any cumulative impacts, of the system-wide design in the final options appraisal at Stage 4 (applicable to the UKADS provider sponsored airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 10: Remove reference to 12 weeks as the accepted standard length for permanent airspace change consultations but maintain the requirement for change sponsors to agree with the CAA an appropriate period of consultation (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 11: Refine and introduce new criteria for convening public evidence sessions (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 12: Remove the possibility of publication of draft CAA decisions (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 13: Consolidate Stage 5 – Decide and Stage 6 - Implement (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 14: Outline the information the UKADS provider would be required to provide to stakeholders prior to any individual deployment (applicable to the UKADS provider sponsored airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 15: Remove the post implementation review and replace it with an airspace performance oversight process (applicable to all airspace change proposals)
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Proposal 16: Introduce a proportionate scaled process that enables conventional procedures that have been subject to RNAV Substitution (CAP 1781) and are already operational, to be replicated with fully Performance-based Navigation (PBN) compliant procedures (applicable to a pre-scaled airspace change proposal)
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Proposal 17: Develop a proportionate scaled process within CAP 1616 that would enable the establishment of short-duration volumes of segregated airspace for BVLOS (applicable to a pre-scaled airspace change proposal)
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Migration policy: Migration from CAP 1616 version 5 to version 6 (applicable to CAP1616 version 5 airspace change proposals)
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Final call for views
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