Managing Your Airspace Change Proposal (ACP) and Associated Process Requirements

Avigation has a proven track record in successfully managing and delivering sponsors' ACPs and associated processes.

Within the UK, any airspace change must be conducted under the auspices of the UK CAA's CAP1616 Airspace Change; the process requirements can vary markedly depending on the nature of the change and the complexity of the airspace construct within which the change will occur.

Avigation's team has significant experience in delivering sponsors' ACPs, from creating the requisite initial statement of need through to implementing the design and post-implementation management.

The Avigation team is well-versed in the CAP1616 process requirements and has developed a strong working relationship with the UK CAA.  Avigation will be happy to support your though your ACP journey and associated interactions with not only the CAA, but also the many interlocutors with whom an ACP sponsor must engage and consult.

Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Operations Analysis and Support

Avigation acknowledges that all clients’ organisations strive for efficiency and improvements, but may encounter difficulty taking an objective view of their operations. As part of any client project, Avigation will conduct an appropriate analysis of the operation.

The Avigation team has a demonstrable breadth and depth of ATM and operational experience and expertise that can support clients in their pursuit of operational efficiency. Avigation can identify areas where operational enhancements might be made and can help clients deliver and manage change, be that to their operations, airspace or operational procedures and processes, through a robust and effective SMS.

Moreover, Avigation understands not only the fiscal constraints under which many organisations must operate, but also the safety, operational and regulatory landscape within which operations take place.

A “Turn-key” Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Point-in-space (PinS) Procedures Design, Implementation and Management Service

Avigation can help rotary-wing customers enhance their operations by developing and delivering PinS, thereby enabling operations in adverse weather conditions.

PinS procedures allow a greater position and navigation accuracy and the ability to descend to lower operating minima, which could offer significant operational enhancement to operations such as HEMS/helimed. 

Avigation has supported the enhancement of customers’ operational capability and managed obstacle assessments and delivered PinS design, validation and implementation from start to finish, using our own GNSS PinS experts and our trusted and UK CAA-certified partners, Pildo Wessex Ltd.

Airspace Planning, Design and Implementation Services

Avigation, in close partnership with Pildo Wessex Ltd, can produce a complete package to enable the planning, design and implementation of procedures, routes, holding patterns, airspace structure and ATC sectorisation in both terminal and en-route airspace. 

Avigation recognises that the development and introduction of airspace procedures and design can be challenging and must be planned carefully.

Avigation and its partners are experienced in identifying and addressing all relevant stakeholders’ interests. 

Avigation can carry out impact and environmental assessments, design services and subsequent safety assessments. 

Avigation works with its clients to ensure that any airspace design project will provide operationally efficient solutions.

Supporting the Renewable Energy Sector

Avigation’s consultants are keen proponents of renewable energy’s integration with aviation and have supported aerodrome operators and wind energy developers alike.

Avigation’s consultants have a demonstrable track record in the wind energy sector, supporting small-scale and large-scale developments and repowering, from scoping studies, stakeholder engagements, planning applications and mitigation solution selection. Separately, Avigation’s consultants worked with the CAA to develop policy and regulation in this area and they have supported the Scottish Government’s Energy Consent Unit develop their wider onshore and offshore wind sector engagement and working groups.

Developing an Effective Safety Management System (SMS) for your Organisation/Operation

Avigation believes that a proactive safety culture underpinned by an open and just reporting culture is key to developing an effective SMS.

Providing a safe operational and working environment is at the core of everything we do in the aviation industry. A robust SMS is the current recognised method of managing safety and being able to demonstrate this to the regulator.

Avigation has developed and delivered effective, manageable and proportionate management systems for its clients. These have included tools to manage risk, reporting systems and assisting clients in formulating policies to create a strong safety culture within their organisation.

Proactive Risk Management and Project Management 

Avigation’s approach to risk and project management is underpinned by the principles of the Association for Project Management (APM) and the UK Office of Government Commerce’s “Management of Risk (MoR)”.

Avigation’s embeds proactive risk management at the heart of its project management; these activities are a continuum over the life of our projects. 

Avigation recognises that regular and effective communications, both within the team and between the team and the client, are not only instrumental to a stronger working relationship and understanding between all parties, but also a critical success factors.

User and System Requirements and Procurement Support

One of the critical success factors in any procurement is creating as clear and unambiguous a set of requirements and specifications as practicable.

Employing industry standard techniques, Avigation’s team works with its clients to understand the specific business and user needs, which can be distilled into an overarching, high-level requirement set (HLRS). 

Embedded within clients’ teams, Avigation can then evolve the HLRS further into a detailed set of user and system requirements, complete with measures of performance, acceptance criteria and any constraints.