On behalf of AOPA UK I shall be attending the UK AIS consultation meeting on 14 July 2010. This is an opportunity for AIS to brief on forthcoming changes and to receive feedback from users.
AIS is part of NATS and provides the service on behalf of the UK government.
The meeting will cover the data handling and delivery functions carried out by AIS, including NOTAM, AIP and Charting as well as the delivery methods and the European AIS Database.
The CAA's regulator will be present, as will representatives from AUS, who originate a lot of the Nav Warnings and Restrictions of Flying. EAD, who provide the underlying database and the delivery service via the NATS website at www.ais.org.uk will also be present and the Military AIS will be represented by No 1 AIDU.
There is a lot going on in AIS on an international basis as Europe moves towards SWIM (System Wide Information Management) and AIXM (the AIS Information Exchange Model) as well as the Digital NOTAM project led by Eurocontrol and the FAA.
If anyone has any input for the meeting they'd like to feed through to me my e-mail is mrcross(at)popmail.bta.com
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Shouldn't affect it at all. It works like this:-
UK is a signatory to the Chicago Convention, which places certain obligations on HMG.
The part of HMG that is responsible for provision, which includes funding and delivery, is DfT.
CAA is an agency of DfT, in the same way that DVLA is, and is the bit of DfT that is charged with delivering the goods.
NATS is the contractor CAA uses to provide AIS. It's difficult to see why a shift in ownership of a contractor should alter the policy of the organisation letting the contract.
Any sale of HMG's stake in NATS would be contingent on finding a buyer. They failed to do that in 2001 and the likelyhood is that there is less appetite for it now. This BBC story from 2001 gives some perspective.
UK is a signatory to the Chicago Convention, which places certain obligations on HMG.
The part of HMG that is responsible for provision, which includes funding and delivery, is DfT.
CAA is an agency of DfT, in the same way that DVLA is, and is the bit of DfT that is charged with delivering the goods.
NATS is the contractor CAA uses to provide AIS. It's difficult to see why a shift in ownership of a contractor should alter the policy of the organisation letting the contract.
Any sale of HMG's stake in NATS would be contingent on finding a buyer. They failed to do that in 2001 and the likelyhood is that there is less appetite for it now. This BBC story from 2001 gives some perspective.
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