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More Responsibility For GA Likely as Europe’s Controlled Airspace Grow

Europe’s controlled airspace is to be expanded to absorb air transport growth, leaving the general aviation community with the prospect of paying air traff

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

December 18, 2006

Europe’s controlled airspace is to be expanded to absorb air transport growth, leaving the general aviation community with the prospect of paying air traffic management fees and having to adjust to a more complex operating environment.

Phil Roberts, assistant director of the British CAA’s directorate of airspace policy, told the London conference on the future of general aviation that the authority is “fighting [in] GA’s corner” on the issue of charges but also warned that GA will have to do more to reduce the number of infringements of controlled airspace, for which they are largely responsible.

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