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Old 1st Apr 2019, 19:36
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NOTAMs have a place for sure but relevance and depiction to assist crews is critical. Dissemination to multiple sites who then plot them gives rise to many opportunities for human error. Likewise a chart with pins in allows refinement of reading but then you have to plot each one anyway. Different categories are useful i.e. terminal versus en-route and maybe upper limit filtering. Technology now exists to centrally depict for all to view, an example being CADS that has to be used for most flight planning deconfliction anyway; likewise import to mission planners. This coupled with user tailorable relevance filters has the potential to make life easier and it is more efficient to plot once and view rather than many times over plotting. At the time I left the military there seemed a reluctance to centrally plot and depict, I know not why.
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