Importantly, collaboration is not limited to a process within a particular State. In the case of a Terminal Airspace located close to an international border – and especially where two Terminal Airspaces are located in close proximity to the common internal border, this collaboration should be extended into the international domain. Input from the adjacent State(s) is also desirable – particularly when designing routes, holds, creating the airspace structure and sectorisation. Indeed, future traffic demands could conceivably require two independent Terminal Airspaces on either side of a border to be transformed into a common cross-border Terminal Airspace.
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Present day air traffic management is characterised by specialisation in different fields. For this reason, a broad range of specialists should be included in the Terminal Airspace Design team. This means that the design team should include ATC experts as well as Users, PANS-OPS specialists and Environmental representatives. Failure to collaborate effectively with the support of other specialists, adjacent States or to obtain the input of other interested parties could result in the wrong assumptions being fixed or constraints and enablers not being identified correctly. Of necessity, such errors weaken the design and may lead to subsequent rejection.
1.3.3 STRIKING THE BALANCE
General Principles and the principle of collaboration considered, it becomes evident that the designers are frequently required to strike the balance between the diverse and competing interests. Despite this reality, it is opportune to point out that the quest for collaboration should not extend to compromising safety. Whilst safety objectives can be achieved in a variety of ways (which can be viewed as a ‘compromise’ of sorts), safety itself should not be compromised. Thus in the triangle made up of Safety, Capacity and Environmental interests, Safety is not negotiable.
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The Design Methodology described in this chapter is the anchor point of the Terminal Airspace design project and is aimed at responding to the operational requirements and design objectives described in Part B. 中国航空网 www.aero.cn 航空翻译 www.aviation.cn 本文链接地址:EUROCONTROL MANUAL FOR AIRSPACE PLANNING 2(10)