ENAIRE holds its second promotional event with general and sports aviation in Seville
Today, ENAIRE held a promotional event on topics of interest to airspace users with the various organisations of the general and sports aviation sector (Real Aeroclub de España – RACE, Asociación de Pilotos y Propietarios de Aeronaves – AOPA, Asociación Española de Pilotos de Aeronaves Ligeras – AEPAL, and Real Federación Aeronáutica Española – RFA).
This event on general and sports aviation will be held in every ENAIRE region to share knowledge and points of view from air controllers and pilots
The gathering, which was held in the Seville Control Centre, was the second of five training and promotional events laid out in the Agreement signed in July 2023 between the different associations and ENAIRE in an effort to improve operational safety.
This seminar featured representatives from the State Aviation Safety Agency (AESA), the Civil Aviation General Directorate (DGAC) and the Air and Space Force, as well as from AENA, the Real Aeroclub de Andalucía y de Sevilla, the Federación Andaluza de Deportes Aéreos, the Club Aeronáutico de Andalucía, and others.
Key issues were addressed, particularly relevant to the airspace of the Southern Region, managed from ENAIRE's Air Traffic Control Centre in Seville. This airspace covers 179,000 square kilometres and includes Andalusia, Badajoz, part of Ciudad Real, Albacete, Murcia, and Ceuta, as well as the Bay of Cádiz, part of the western Mediterranean, and a corridor leading to Melilla. The following airports are located within this region: Badajoz, Albacete, Córdoba, Jerez, Málaga, Granada, Almería and Seville. ENAIRE provides communications, navigation and surveillance services, as well as en route and approach traffic services at all of them, and aerodrome control services at the last four.
[Family photo from the event held in Seville by ENAIRE on general and sports aviation].
The aim was to share the vision of the different actors involved in the management, regulation and operation, and to share different aspects of interest to general and sports aviation, both today and in the future, favouring opportunities for collaboration and synergies. Operational safety, airspace structure in the region, electronic visibility, and the Air and Space Force's perspective on this type of aviation were discussed.
[Carlos Caspueñas, director of the Southern Region of ENAIRE].
About ENAIRE
ENAIRE is the air navigation service provider in Spain.
As a company of the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility, it provides en route control services for all flights and overflights from five control centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Gran Canaria and Palma, as well as approach services to every airport in the country.
In addition, 46 airports receive communication, navigation and surveillance services from ENAIRE, which also maintains their air traffic control systems, and 21 of them, including the country's busiest airports, rely on its aerodrome air traffic control services.
ENAIRE is Europe's fourth largest air traffic manager and participates in the A6 Alliance, a coalition of air navigation providers responsible for over 80% of European air traffic, and which is seeking to modernise the air traffic management system. It is also a member of other international alliances promoting the Single European sky, such as SESAR Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, iTEC, CANSO and ICAO.
ENAIRE, as the responsible agency identified by the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility to implement the U-Space system in Spain, will, through its digital platform, provide the Common Information Services (CIS), which are essential to facilitate U-space services to drones and Urban Air Mobility in cooperation with local air traffic services, so that all types of aircraft can fly safely in the same airspace.
ENAIRE has received the highest score in Europe on the aviation safety key performance indicator for four years in a row. It has also been awarded the EFQM 600 Seal for its safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable management of air navigation services.
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