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Old 7th Jul 2006, 11:21
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Mike Cross
 
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From the France AIP
Series B: Information of a limited international scope and concerning
more particulary other flights (restricted international publication limited
to the European region).
Series D: containing information on aerodromes used for general aviation.
Publication are restricted to the countries involved within the scope
of SCHENGEN agreements (Germany, Austria, Belgium,Denmark,
Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden,
Iceland and Norway).
You decide to fly from any of those countries to France and take your brief from the AIS of the State of departure you will get French Series B. Take the brief from any other State and you won't.

It's easy to define a rectangular block of airspace and get a brief for it (e.g to cover an ATSU's area) how to do it is explained in the Website User Guide on Page 14. Once set up it can be re-used on demand by pulling it from the Briefing Handbook.

FA
Your link does not point to NOTAM but to maps showing Temporary Flight Restrictions. These refer to the originating NOTAM but this service ONLY shows you the TFR's. (It won't for example tell you if the navaid you are intending to use is unserviceable or a runway is out of service for maintenance). In the UK the equivalent service is provided by the free phone number 0500 35480. We don't have the same number of TFR's they do in the US.

The Q Line info was inserted into the brief at my request as a facilitator to allow anyone who wanted to to design a software application to allow the brief to be presented graphically and/or to allow more detailed filtering than is available from the AIS site. To the best of my knowledge no-one has yet done so. The Q line contains the ICAO data fields that are designed for the job of selection and display by electronic means. Ian Fallon's NotamPlot had to get this information via a third party (Avbrief) because the info was not included in the AIS offering. It now is. Prior to inclusion a separate feed was required from NATS, which Avbrief and the other commercial briefing organisations have.


I hope these explanations help. Thanks for all of your input.

Mike
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