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Joint airspace use
In order to fulfil all requirements concerning the conflicting interests of military and civil aviation, all airspace users must share the same idea. There is only one airspace. It has to be used jointly and in a coordinated way. This philosophy of use has prevailed in Germany for more than 25 years now. In one of the busiest airspaces of the world, coordinated use of airspace is indispensable. The first steps were taken in 1980 with the Airspace and Traffic Management Centre, together with COMIL as a military coordination unit. Later, within the scope of the European Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA) Concept, the national civil-military Airspace Management Cell (AMC) was established. Germany was thus the first country to optimally implement FUA in daily operations and to enhance it in a consistent manner.
Since the benefits of FUA are already reaching their limits in the ever-busier airspace and new fighter aircraft require larger airspace, DFS and the German Air Force are now testing an advanced concept: The former TRAs (Temporary Restricted Areas) have been converted into dynamically allocated MVPAs (Military Variable Profile Areas). They allow shorter flight routes. Only in individual cases do aircraft have to fly around military airspace. According to MVPA, military airspace users only have to inform DFS about the dimensions of the training airspace and the planned scenario. DFS will then provide an airspace tailored to their specific needs while considering civil traffic flows.
The advantages for civil and military aviation are obvious:
- Demand-oriented short-term allocation of military training airspaces with guaranteed usability
- Permanent and efficient military training and, at the same time, optimised civil routings
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