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Old 9th Aug 2003, 20:22
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NOtimTAMs
 
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They're at it again! This one from Area 40 NOTAMs.


PRD C1494/03
TEMPO DANGER AREA ACT
FOR HIGH SPEED MIL JET ACFT TO OPR ON RANDOM TRACKS REMAINING CLEAR
OF CTAF AND CTA. CHAFF AND FLARES MAY BE USED WI THE DANGER AREA.
TRAFFIC WILL NOT BE PASSED TO OR ABOUT THESE MIL ACFT.
LATERAL LIMITS: S28 00 E149 30,
S30 00 E149 30,
S30 00 E150 00,
S30 30 E150 00,
S30 30 E152 30,
S29 21 E153 13,
S29 15 E153 03,
S29 06 E153 06,
S28 00 E152 00,
S28 00 E149 30.

VERTICAL LIMITS: SFC - LOWER OF CTA
FROM 08 102300 TO 08 151200
0308102300 TO 0308111200 0308112300 TO 0308121200 0308122300 TO

0308131200 0308132300 TO 0308141200 0308142300 TO 0308151200


The observant ones will see it as a reissue of one of the original NOTAMs of the post, but not everyone is obsessive compulsive about remembering these things.
"Hold on, before I fly today, lets get out the WACs and plot the 8 points and see if it applies to my flight plan.....' - for f*cks sake, if it's seriously there as safety advice, make it bl00dy accessible.

To me it means the RAAF don't actually care if the information is useable or not and that they perhaps assess collision risk as v. v. low anyway (maybe they are NAS converts.......) and are just issuing it because they have to.........

Either way, it's pretty pointless.

Safe Flying

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