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Old 10th Mar 2004, 00:32
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DRJAD
 
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I have no problem with the AIS current method of getting NOTAMs. The improvements made have been welcome, and there is no difficulty with obtaining those data one needs.

If anything, the user interface could be improved: particularly in terms of 'plugging' data from one field to another to 'shortcut' data entry. If, once 'plugged', those fields (e.g. date) could remain eligible for overtyping then prospective queries would still be as easy to obtain as they are today.

Data presentation is fine insofar as it gives everything selected. However, the appearance of the output (pages of Courier font) is not easy on the eye. There is, therefore, a danger that items can be missed when reading the data. It would be good to enable a little highlighting with bold type here and there in each NOTAM to give a more easily identifiable set of NOTAM types.

I certainly endorse the point made above of providing named nearby geographical areas as adjunct references for temporary military restrictions.
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