new air traffic services outside of controlled airspace

Location : Glasgow

As of today (12th March) RIS, RAS, FIS will no longer be used.

Instead there will 4 distinct services available to aircraft flying outside controlled airspace:

Basic Service; Traffic Service; Deconfliction Service; Procedural Service

Basic Service
A Basic Service is an air traffic service (ATS) provided for the purpose of giving advice and information useful for the safe and efficient conduct of flight. This may include weather information, changes of serviceability of facilities, conditions at aerodromes, general airspace activity information, and any other information likely to affect safety. The avoidance of other traffic is solely the pilot’s responsibility.

Traffic Service
A Traffic Service is a surveillance based ATS, where in addition to the provisions of a Basic Service, the controller provides specific surveillance derived traffic information to assist the pilot in avoiding other traffic. Controllers may provide headings and/or levels for the purposes of positioning and/or sequencing; however, the controller is not required to achieve deconfliction minima, and the avoidance of other traffic is ultimately the pilot’s responsibility.

Deconfliction Service
A Deconfliction Service is a surveillance based ATS where, in addition to the provisions of a Basic Service, the controller provides specific surveillance derived traffic information and issues headings and/or levels aimed at achieving planned deconfliction minima against all observed aircraft in Class F/G airspace, or for positioning and/or sequencing. However, the avoidance of other traffic is ultimately the pilot’s responsibility.

Procedural Service
A Procedural Service is an ATS where in addition to the provisions of a Basic Service, the controller provides vertical, lateral, longitudinal and time instructions which, if complied with, shall achieve deconfliction minima against other aircraft participating in the Procedural Service. Neither traffic information nor deconfliction advice can be passed with respect to unknown traffic.

Some sites that might be of use:

Airspacesafety.com
CAA Website

Craig

thanks for the heads up much appriciated :bball:

Location : Near RAF Aldergrove

Thanks for the info. Heard controllers locally today using basic service. Thought it must have been something new.

Location : A secret airbase in Oxfordshire

I have been looking forward to this! For years I have been asking for Radar Information or Radar Advisory and now I will have to remember new words Shocked

Old dogs and new tricks Laughing

Tonks 8)

Location : St.Ives, Cambridgeshire

I was listening to a civilian pilot getting confused about what he was being offered in the early hours of this morning. Thanks for showing the info.

A

Location : south coast Spotter Watch Member : no

I wanted to go flying on the 13th Just to try out the new! service, and to see which units were heads up on the new names, after all having had to complete a "CBT" (Computer Based Training) on the new system for work, thought it would fun to see if my coleauges were also switched on?

Still think many pilots will get confused, but at least it make it more easy for ATC staff