Overview India’s civil aviation authority, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has ordered a reduction in height of 70 buildings within 60 days. This is due, at least in [...]

For the latest information on this topic, please see our updated article on aviation lighting and building developments here. This subject seems like a no-brainer at first. Put a couple [...]

Airports vs Buildings Plans for building developments can, and do, receive objections from airports. Invariably, these relate to flight safety, which gives the objection a loud voice in the ear [...]

Tall buildings may block and reflect radar signals which means that national air traffic control service, NATS, raises planning objections to tall buildings in London, Manchester and elsewhere in the [...]

What Are Obstacle Limitation Surfaces? The UK has [1] 129 licensed civil aerodromes (and even more unlicensed aerodromes). In order to protect aircraft against potential collision risk, it is necessary to [...]

RAF Objections Renewable energy developers in the UK regularly face objections from the Royal Air Force (RAF) /Ministry Of Defence (MOD). This is particularly common for wind developments due to [...]

London City Airport does not follow the standard UK and International physical safeguarding rules for tall buildings. Instead, custom rules have been put in place in order to facilitate the [...]

Modern aviation infrastructure around the world is underpinned by sophisticated electronic equipment. This ranges from well-known apparatus like radar to lesser-known equipment such as Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), navigation beacons, [...]

In recent news it was mentioned that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requested that the overall height of four building developments in the city of Miami needs to be [...]

Wide Area Multilateration – usually shortened to WAM – is a surveillance system for monitoring aircraft. Presently, surveillance of aircraft is usually achieved by means of radar. Air navigation service [...]