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Various
types of Air Traffic:
Civil
flights, which come under the category of general
air traffic (GAT: IFR or VFR), including
certain
military traffic.
Military flights, which come under the category of
military operations traffic and,
and acceptance flight tests.
Military air traffic (OAT) includes both military
operations traffic and acceptance flight
test
flights.
These
three types of air traffic, very different in
nature, must all use the airspace together
in
safety. In the upper airspace, the general air
traffic is organized around pre-determined routes (PDR)
or airways. Civil flights only ever deviate from
these routes after co-ordination with military
centres.
OAT
(Military Air Traffic) flights, on the other hand,
have unforeseeable flight paths (combat) or
ones that are difficult to modify. Because of this,
airspaces must be temporarily reserved for them
where they can fly without interfering with civil
air traffic.
Finally,
there is one more category of military flights: "out
of area" military air traffic. These are flights
that can use all the airspace. The military
controller in charge of this flight is responsible
for maintaining separation with other aircraft,
according to information provided by civil aviation
systems.
OAT may
never interfer with GAT.
ATC
needs to seperate OAT and GAT at any times. |
