Austro Control NOTAM system now live

[Mike Cross]

Thise who have followed the NOTAM saga may be aware that Thales IS issued a press release over a year ago on 29 January 2002 stating that "Based on @ES, Austro Control will offer new Self-Briefing and Home-Briefing services starting in April 2002 to their customers. "
http://www.thales-is.com/Templates/Section.asp?IDSection={3C0FE83B-32C7-11D6-BC3B-00A0C94C8F72}&IDPage={3C0FE842-32C7-11D6-BC3B-00A0C94C8F72}

I gather that it is now live and has been for about 2 weeks. So a lead time of 3 months became 13 months.

Those of a masochistic bent might care to have a look at https://www.homebriefing.com

You can register and get free access for up to 3 months with a free 175 point usage credit. NOTAM briefs cost 8 points and an update costs 2 points.

750 points would cost you 105 Euro plus VAT

If you use a self-briefing terminal at an Austrian airport it's free.

It may be of interest to see how the someone else is trying to implement the same software.

Mike Cross
AOPA UK

[rustle]

Typical.

It took 47 seconds to load the bloody login page!

Thales have learned absolutely nothing from the complete disaster they sold to UK-AIS.

[Aussie Andy]

I found the login page loaded instantly - but I'm not going to spend any time or money trying the system out!

However, clock the nice userguide at https://www.homebriefing.com/demonstration/en/index.htm - shows how this could be done better by AIS!

Andy