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Betsy's minions squeak out AAPS 2025 consult?? -  

Via Betsy's media minions:

Have your say on the future of Australian airspace

Feedback on the proposed Australian Airspace Policy Statement 2025 is being sought as part of the Aviation White Paper.

Have your say on the future of Australian airspace

25 November 2024

Feedback on the proposed Australian Airspace Policy Statement 2025 is being sought as part of the Aviation White Paper.

As part of the Aviation White Paper, the Australian Government has committed to reforming airspace management by 2030.

We’re seeking feedback on the proposed Australian Airspace Policy Statement (AAPS) 2025 which outlines the Australian Government’s strategic policy direction for the administration of Australian airspace.  

The AAPS outlines key priorities and strategic objectives for managing Australia’s airspace, providing guidance to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and other aviation agencies.

The proposed AAPS highlights 8 priority areas:

1. Safety
   
2. Australian Future Airspace Framework
   
3. Regulatory certainty for new aviation technologies
   
4. Enabling flight testing
   
5. Airspace review
   
6. International consistency
   
7. Regional aerodromes
   
8. Future-focused collaboration to support national security
   

Submissions close at 11.59pm (AEDT) on Friday 20 December 2024.

For more information and to share your views visit our Have your say page.

Also Oz Flying reference: Government seeks Feedback on Airspace Policy Statement

Plus LMH's take...

"..Although the phrase "do as I say, not do as I do" is most often attributed to sergeants and flying instructors, it can equally be applied to government departments. This week the department opened consultation on the Australian Airspace Policy Statement (AAPS) with all the fanfare of a muted kazoo; the minister sent out no press release and the news appears on neither the CASA nor the Airservices news feeds. Do they not want us to know about it? If you flick through the AAPS it is full of motherhood statements about making sure airspace is managed fairly and efficiently, which is a complete contradiction to what they are really doing as evidenced by the new airspace design proposals for Sydney. To look at the Sydney proposals and compare them to the AAPS you would swear the two weren't produced by the same government. The AAPS says one thing, the Sydney proposal does another. That's nearly impossible for the GA community to reconcile whilst simultaneously giving fair and balanced feedback. But are we expecting too much from something that admittedly is only policy? Policies are good until they are inconvenient, then they are discarded quicker than a losing Tattslotto ticket. So in the end, the aviation community is being asked to comment on a policy that may or may not be put into effect, which is why it contradicts so much with the Sydney airspace proposals..."

MTF...P2