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Old 6th Nov 2021, 23:19
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43Inches
 
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NOTAMs possibly need to have a category assigned. Ie Category 1 is High risk such as airport closure, main runway closure, minima changes, large/dangerous obstacles changing TODA/TORA or LDA, extreme animal risks such as stock on runway, sudden lighting changes and so on. Category two as medium risk secondary runway, or grass surfaces unavailable, lighting changes, standby power, lower animal risks, frequency changes, ATS changes. Category 3 as no significant hazard but notifiable, obstacles under a certain height that pose no real threat to normal operations, hours of operation of tower, fuel etc, taxiway lights markings etc etc etc.

Once you have a category assigned you can push notifications through modern pilot applications. Ie taxi at Gunnedah, Oz Runways/Jeps flashes big red warning "Category 1 NOTAM for this aerodrome, push to read", once its read have it come up as just a big red "!" in the corner or next to the Aerodrome name, so it's still in mind. Still have an alert for Cat 2/3 but let it be just a yellow "!" in the corner next or to the aerodrome name or such. Just like TCAS or TAWS it becomes a fallback warning for a missed NOTAM, just like both its not infallible but will work in 90% of scenarios and hopefully prevent 99.9% of occurrences.

The MOS covers the councils extra duties, but really there needs a backup system for pilots, we are human and subject to err.

In theory you could link more to this, such as line up on the wrong runway and the big red "!" comes up, "hey idiot, this ones shorter than the minimum length in the aircraft data"
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