A vote of thanks to the Notams team
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A vote of thanks to the Notams team
Many thanks to rustle, mrcross and rod1 who put in such a lot of time and effort to improve the availability of Notams. Standing offer to each of you of free upside-down flying and (then) beer. I have probably missed someone off the list, for which: apologies, and the same offer.
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You're very kind chaps and chapesses.
Russell and I will be at the Duxford bash on 5 April and hope to see some of you there. As Russell will be P1 I shall be forced to drink the beer on his behalf!
The briefs on http://www.nats.co.uk/operational/pibs/index.shtml are a start but there is still some distance to go.
Within the next few weeks we should see a return to geographic ordering of the NOTAM. At the same time you should be able to download a geographically ordered brief from http://www.ais.org.uk
The difference will be that the NATS site brief will be updated twice a day but the AIS site brief will be generated live for you, in other words it will be bang up to date. It will be a "one click" brief. You won't have to fill in the web form as you do now.
Also to come is the same brief being available for fax download for those sites without Internet access.
There is work going on to try and eliminate some of the browser compatibility issues by simplifying the AIS site's construction.
Once these major issues are sorted further work will take place to clear up minor irritations and niggles.
UK AIS have acknowledged the shortcomings and are working hard to fix them, we hope to see more good news over the next few weeks.
Mike Cross
Russell and I will be at the Duxford bash on 5 April and hope to see some of you there. As Russell will be P1 I shall be forced to drink the beer on his behalf!
The briefs on http://www.nats.co.uk/operational/pibs/index.shtml are a start but there is still some distance to go.
Within the next few weeks we should see a return to geographic ordering of the NOTAM. At the same time you should be able to download a geographically ordered brief from http://www.ais.org.uk
The difference will be that the NATS site brief will be updated twice a day but the AIS site brief will be generated live for you, in other words it will be bang up to date. It will be a "one click" brief. You won't have to fill in the web form as you do now.
Also to come is the same brief being available for fax download for those sites without Internet access.
There is work going on to try and eliminate some of the browser compatibility issues by simplifying the AIS site's construction.
Once these major issues are sorted further work will take place to clear up minor irritations and niggles.
UK AIS have acknowledged the shortcomings and are working hard to fix them, we hope to see more good news over the next few weeks.
Mike Cross
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Alas, there is no beer at Duxford, but I will stand any of you a disgusting cream bun from the authentic austerity style canteen (don't forget your ration books), and then take you aerobatic (we use the best quality barf bags nicked from BMI)
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I promised some time frames.
The full IFR list is now available on the NATS main server.
Thales is sending over a “task force” in the first week of April. The FAX and “one button brief” should both be sorted during this week. AIS will have to test things and then make them live. If the Thales stuff works, things will be live by the second week of April.
One slight word of caution, the changes could bring the whole thing crashing down, but that would never happen, would it…
I have also chased the CAA on the Q code and hope to get some feedback soon, but nothing to report as yet.
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The full IFR list is now available on the NATS main server.
Thales is sending over a “task force” in the first week of April. The FAX and “one button brief” should both be sorted during this week. AIS will have to test things and then make them live. If the Thales stuff works, things will be live by the second week of April.
One slight word of caution, the changes could bring the whole thing crashing down, but that would never happen, would it…
I have also chased the CAA on the Q code and hope to get some feedback soon, but nothing to report as yet.
Rod
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I used them for the first time in a while on Sunday and must say that I could find little to complain about (only that I still have to log on and the navigation is a little long-winded in places.)
So well done all of you. I wonder if NATS waited for a lull in the IT market to launch this product so that they could take advantage of loads of free consultancy from resting IT pros
I guess that Pilatus will be along shortly to add his thanks and congrats!
W
So well done all of you. I wonder if NATS waited for a lull in the IT market to launch this product so that they could take advantage of loads of free consultancy from resting IT pros
I guess that Pilatus will be along shortly to add his thanks and congrats!
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Thanks 
mrcross has it all wrong if he thinks he's going to drink all my beer, firstly because we aren't drinking at Duxford, and secondly because no-one drinks my beer
WC, what lull in the IT market
I doubt we'll hear from Mr/Ms Pilatus again, we haven't had that pleasure for ages
mrcross has it all wrong if he thinks he's going to drink all my beer, firstly because we aren't drinking at Duxford, and secondly because no-one drinks my beer
WC, what lull in the IT market
I doubt we'll hear from Mr/Ms Pilatus again, we haven't had that pleasure for ages
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Folks,
Thanks for helping to get it sorted, and I think to NATS as well to be willing to listen. Not all government agencies are so receptive.
The powers that are get quite a lot of flak on these forums, some of that may well be justified. However time after time I am pleasantly surprised by their positive attitude to try and solve problems.
Those who can't agree with that will have to get more exposure to the healthservice and education.
Is there something left to complain about? Well not really although a truly narrow briefing would be nice and a graphical presentation would be wonderful.
FD
Thanks for helping to get it sorted, and I think to NATS as well to be willing to listen. Not all government agencies are so receptive.
The powers that are get quite a lot of flak on these forums, some of that may well be justified. However time after time I am pleasantly surprised by their positive attitude to try and solve problems.
Those who can't agree with that will have to get more exposure to the healthservice and education.
Is there something left to complain about? Well not really although a truly narrow briefing would be nice and a graphical presentation would be wonderful.
FD