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Old 17th November 2019 | 10:52
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VinRouge
 
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The FAA need to get a grip of American airports issuing 50+ notams. Furthermore, the notams are ordered not in importance order, instead are smattered through based upon date of issue. There needs to be a clearer way of stating X runway is closed between certain times, whether Y instrument aids are available. a pictorial/jpeg of current airfield work in progress would also cut out around 50-70% of all notams currently issued. Airfield work in progress shouldn’t be issued for more than 2 weeks, that’s what we have nav plate updates and an AIRAC cycle for. Perhaps a table, with each runway and a simple colour code as we whether properties of that runway are affected. You could have columns for length, instrument aids, closed turnoffs, that sort of hing. One person should be collating the data and summarising, instead we had a system whereby every pilot has to make a cognitive summary of a load of text.

There needs to be much greater global standardisation of language used in NOTAM. if I search for CLSD, it should come up with all closed facilities, I shouldn’t have to go back in and have to search for closed.

Finally, gaffing off airfield closures to an AIP entry and not having them embodied in terminal charts is just downright lazy.
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