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Old 26th September 2002 | 13:14
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Rod1
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I think what most of us would like is a "feed" of the information to be made available to others. This would allow people to get Notampro and other similar programs working.

The basic operation of the "new" AIS site is text based. It is very similar to the sort of stuff supplied with the early IBM PC's back in 1982/83. NATS are not programmers, and boy does it show. If they concentrated on getting the info out and left others to make it understandable all our problems would go away in a mater of weeks. Nats would then not have the CAA hitting them over the head, and would not have to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds on trying to catch up on the last 20 years of Graphical User Interfaces and colour maps indicating exactly what we need to know in next to no time.

The frustrating thing is it was all available, virtually free of charge. With a tiny amount of planning they could have arranged for the feed to coincide with the new site and we could have carried on using our favourite programs as if nothing had happened. Such a feed, by the way, could be entirely automatic, and would cost next to nothing to set up.

Rod1