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requested.

      Note: North of 65°S IFR flights are considered to have on ongoing flight information request and receive traffic information on other IFR flights and known VFR flights.

Special Use Airspace

  18.  Australia has adopted the ICAO designations described in Annex 11 of the Chicago Convention for describing the designation to be used for the purposes of restricting access to or warning about access to airspace where there are activities that may be incompatible with routine flying operations.

  19.  The designations to be used in Australia shall be in accordance with the principles of the Chicago Convention and are specified below:

  Prohibited Area: An airspace of defined dimensions, above the land areas or territorial waters of Australia, within which the flight of aircraft is prohibited.

 Restricted Area: An airspace of defined dimensions, above the land areas or territorial waters of Australia, within which the flight of aircraft is restricted in accordance with certain specified conditions.

  Danger Area: An airspace of defined dimensions within which activities dangerous to the flight of aircraft may exist at specified times.

  20.  Consistent with ICAO Procedures for Air Navigation Services – Aeronautical Information Management, CASA may publish airspace of defined dimensions where military training or exercises take place at regular intervals. CASA may also establish procedures to permit relevant airspace users to have safe access to such airspace in consultation with the controlling authority.

  21.  Consistent with ICAO Annex 11, flexible use airspace, and in order to provide added airspace capacity and to improve efficiency and flexibility of aircraft operations, airspace of defined dimensions may be reserved for military or other special activities.

  22.  The Government acknowledges that CASA may need to publish airspace of defined dimensions to ensure the safety of future airspace users and expects CASA to review the need for airspace changes consistent with government policy objectives.

Review and Change of Airspace Classifications, Services and Facilities

   23.  CASA's review process must be risk-based, using both quantitative and qualitative data sources. CASA's risk management framework should be in accordance with the standards stipulated in the ISO 31000, Risk Management - Guidelines. The risk methodology should include all current, new and future entrants into the airspace.

   24.  CASA will review changes to aircraft and passenger movement data on a quarterly basis. The sources for this data will include, but not be limited to the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, Airservices and aerodrome operators. CASA will review Australian Transport Safety Bureau and Airservices safety occurrence data on a monthly basis. CASA will assess all available data to identify current or emerging aviation safety risks that may require airspace solutions or other mitigation to achieve an acceptable level of safety for all airspace users.