FAA Makes Local NOTAMs Available Online

http://www.aopa.org/flightplanning/a...227notams.html
FAA makes local notams available online
By AOPA ePublishing staff

Pilots will soon be able to get all notams for a given flight from
electronic sources, thanks to a change in the status of "local"
notams.

Beginning Jan. 28, 2008, all new local, or L, notams will be
reclassified as D notams and added to the national notam system.
In addition, each new D notam will be preceded by a keyword that
indicates the area affected, such as navigation lighting, runway,
ramp, or airspace. [Download a graphical depiction.]

That means for the first time pilots will be able to get all
relevant notams, including those that affect only their
destination airport, without calling flight service. In the past,
pilots who used online briefing sources did not receive local
notams, which can include important operational data like taxiway
closures. ...

The change marks the first stage of a three-part plan for updating
the notam system. Over the coming years, the FAA also plans to
merge the Department of Defense notam system with the civilian
system and to fully digitize all notam information to include
graphics. The final phases of the projects will not be completed
before 2010.


http://web.nbaa.org/public/ops/airspace/realignment/
NOTAM Realignment
Updated January 3, 2008

What is NOTAM Realignment?

The FAA will be making some changes to the NOTAM system over the
next few years with the end goal of modernizing the NOTAM product.
This is an overhaul of a product that is of critical use to
pilots, dispatchers, and air traffic controllers and will try to
balance the diverse needs of the airlines, general aviation, air
traffic control, international users, and the military.

The idea, in its most simple form, is to...



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http://nfdc.faa.gov/aimnews/index.html


However there are issues with the LockMart NOTAM system:
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0052/t.9021.html
WASHINGTON
A move by the Federal Aviation Administration to privatize its
Flight Service Stations has generated concern among some
broadcasters about the competence of the contractor hired to
collect and disseminate “Notice to Airmen” reports.

NOTAMs are filed when broadcasters discover that towers are not
properly lit because a light or lights have gone out. A
broadcaster is required to contact the FAA of an outage and again
when the problem has been corrected.

Privatization may be saving the government money but it has lead
to complaints from broadcasters. Issues include the timeliness of
NOTAMs appearing in general aviation pilot briefings and lack of
communication regarding the use of a new nationwide toll-free
telephone number to report obstruction lighting outages, according
to engineers contacted for this article. ...


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http://radiomagonline.com/news/repor...ht-outage-faa/

And the current FAA NOTAM web site:
https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/distribution/home.html

With ALL notams, (every type of notam listed in local, state, national
database) scrolling across the screen, it will be a disaster... How
are you going to sift through hundreds of screens of data to compile
your flight... jeezzzzz

denny