Pre-Flight Briefing Availability/Question
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Thanks for everyones comments. Its very informative and useful.
What it seems to me is that we a need a computer geek, sorry whizzkid, to design a system that can be easily accessed online which can graphically display relevant notams etc on a predefined route. I'll do some investigation at work and see what I can find out.
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Thats not professional from ATC either, with the downfall of flightwatch it now falls under the area controllers to do that job as well.
Another slight thread-drift but that really is a step back for the GA side of things getting rid of flightwatch. All the GA fliers are now competing with the RPTs for airtime. As an example my airspace at the weekends is from 45nm north of Sydney to Coffs harbour, from just off the coast nearly as far as Armidale & tamworth from A000 to FL600. And in that you've got PJEs, RPT Jets & Turbos in the cruise, arriving, taxiing, being sequenced to meet arrival times, Sartimes, C Airspace transits, survey flights, My blind broadcasts to VFRs heading toward each other, PRD airspace requests & general broadcasts all fighting for the airwaves. Throw into that a bit of weather avoidance or trying to stop a pilot from getting shot down in R564A can lead to extremely busy workloads.
And before anyone thinks Im griping over only the GA/RA community the RPTs arent any different (i.e. Busting into the Willy class E airspace without clearance). And The heart spasms they've given me arriving at Williamtown (out of WillyATC hours) with a jet setting itself up on Rw30 and a turbo on Rw12. The Turbo was on about 1/2nm final when the Jet was over the keys. I was praying there wasnt a go-around on the jet, fortunately luck won-out. Even the Aisle Supervisor was getting twitchy standing behind me!
Thanks everone for their input so far
What it seems to me is that we a need a computer geek, sorry whizzkid, to design a system that can be easily accessed online which can graphically display relevant notams etc on a predefined route. I'll do some investigation at work and see what I can find out.
oldakro
IFR plan on the area frequency and got a really bad response from ATC
Another slight thread-drift but that really is a step back for the GA side of things getting rid of flightwatch. All the GA fliers are now competing with the RPTs for airtime. As an example my airspace at the weekends is from 45nm north of Sydney to Coffs harbour, from just off the coast nearly as far as Armidale & tamworth from A000 to FL600. And in that you've got PJEs, RPT Jets & Turbos in the cruise, arriving, taxiing, being sequenced to meet arrival times, Sartimes, C Airspace transits, survey flights, My blind broadcasts to VFRs heading toward each other, PRD airspace requests & general broadcasts all fighting for the airwaves. Throw into that a bit of weather avoidance or trying to stop a pilot from getting shot down in R564A can lead to extremely busy workloads.
And before anyone thinks Im griping over only the GA/RA community the RPTs arent any different (i.e. Busting into the Willy class E airspace without clearance). And The heart spasms they've given me arriving at Williamtown (out of WillyATC hours) with a jet setting itself up on Rw30 and a turbo on Rw12. The Turbo was on about 1/2nm final when the Jet was over the keys. I was praying there wasnt a go-around on the jet, fortunately luck won-out. Even the Aisle Supervisor was getting twitchy standing behind me!
Thanks everone for their input so far
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The reading is a worry, but if I'm briefing with a printer attached, I open Word [or similar] and cut'n'paste the bits I want from the data. This severely reduces the paper war [esp if printed double-sided].
Otherwise, as happened last month, two of us read the data and made notes for the trip.
Having said that, the ability to tailor briefings [eg Bn or SY Metro, or Area 21 Coastal] is sadly diminished [as some have noted] by AsA's ability to appropriately cull the data. Their report card sin't good on this one!!!
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Otherwise, as happened last month, two of us read the data and made notes for the trip.
Having said that, the ability to tailor briefings [eg Bn or SY Metro, or Area 21 Coastal] is sadly diminished [as some have noted] by AsA's ability to appropriately cull the data. Their report card sin't good on this one!!!
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Why can't ASA design NAIPS with a check box next to each NOTAM so that one can select which NOTAMs they want to print out? I have suggested this previously during an ASA customer survey with no result.
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Why can't ASA design NAIPS with a check box next to each NOTAM so that one can select which NOTAMs they want to print out? I have suggested this previously during an ASA customer survey with no result.
