Under Europe's vision of a "single sky" and more flexible airspace, military and civil aircraft will share airspace on a more equal footing than ever before. However, this equality means more and more military aircraft will have to be equipped to civilian communication, navigation, surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) standards. Eventually, almost ail aircraft using core European airspace will need to be equipped to accommodate the Single European Sky concept To learn about Europe's plans for civil-military interoperability in its airspace, Avionics Magazine interviewed Col. Jan Plevka, former chairman of the CNS Focus Group at Eurocontrol in Brussels. Plevka served as a military expert at the agency's military unit. As such, he was involved in many European ATM (EATM) programs, including communication strategy development, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) program steering group, the navigation infrastructure group, the Link 2000+ program steering group, the Central European Air Traffic Services (CEATS) regional EATM implementation group, and the overall CNS/ATM architecture. Plevka was chairman of the Eurocontrol military team CNS focus group. In his home country Plevka was responsible for military CNS/ATM systems in the Czech Air Force and was a program manager in charge of transforming the Czech Air Force to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards. Our interview with the Air Force colonel and Ph.D. graduate took place in Brussels.
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