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Old 3rd April 2004 | 10:02
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Dusty_B
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For those of you that want to browse AIS/ get NOTAMs from your PDAs, mobile phones and other non-IE/Windows platforms, try AltAIS.

If you want an area briefing, or can't use cookies, the AltNotam service grabs the Notam data from the NATS website, changes the ICAO codes to plain text, orders the results geographically, and grabs the latest METAR/TAF data for each airfield where metobs is available.

If your browser supports cookies, then you can get "back door" access to the AIS site, including the AIP and PIBs without javascript. AltAIS will help build your PIB request away from the AIS site, and then push you straight to the relevent results page. For those paying by the byte, this reduces the data transfer required hugely by avoiding the bloated AIS pages for as long as possible. Same goes for people with slow connections (via laptops connected through mobile phone modems etc).
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