Outage 11 Oct

Apologies for the outage of the web site from 7-10pm Tuesday 11th October

Unfortunately, I've had to revert to a week-old backup, so last week's NOTAMs will all appear at once.
Anyone who registered in the last week will have to re-register. Sorry about that.

Updates for July

  • Major changes to the database to allow for multiple FIRs
  • Maps upgraded to use the latest Google Maps interface (faster!)
  • The restrictions/nav warnings options have been combined on the maps.
  • The en-route/aerodrome NOTAM options have been separated.
  • Aerodrome-only NOTAMS are now marked with mauve markers, not blue.
  • Obstacles are now marked mauve or blue, depending upon whether they are aerodrome-only or not.
  • You may now click on the circles/area/lines of a NOTAM to see details of that NOTAM. This will help with those large circles of influence, and with the flight path NOTAMs, where the NOTAM marker is difficult to locate.
  • Routes:
    • Click on the start or end markers to create turnpoints.
    • You may no longer click on the path between turn points to create a new turn point.
    • The route markers now have distances and directions to the next turn point.
    • Route markers may be nudged in any direction by 1 minute, one 1/10 degree, or one degree, in north, east, south and west directions.
    • Routes now follow great circles. NB the route brief width doesn't, because working it out would hurt my brain too much.
  • The narrow route brief and local NOTAM lists now have clickable references. Click on these to go to the local map, with the NOTAM highlighted. This will appear on a new tab/page.
  • The RSS feed now links to the NOTAM map as above
  • The HTML emails also link to the local map as above.
  • Clicking on the map will close any open information window. if there is airspace, it will be displayed. If there is nothing under the cursor, the window will be closed.
  • NOTAMS with Q code 'QACCA' ('Class B to E airspace activated') are en-route and aerodrome, but have now been marked as warnings too, so that they get included in emails/maps/RSS feeds, as they are too important to miss.
  • Fixed a bug that led to incorrect dates when maps viewed between midnight and 1am.
  • Help page updated.

Printing/emailing

All pages now have a 'printer-friendly' version, if you want to print off your NOTAMs. See the link at the bottom of each web page. The NOTAM lists have a two-column format, to save paper. The 'printer-friendly' version of each page will be opened in a new tab/page. All non-map web pages may also be emailed. The link for this is also at the bottom of each page.

Aaaargh!

It looks like AIS have changed the style of their web pages, and the NOTAMinfo routines can't access it as before. I'll fix it as soon as possible - I've just returned from holiday, only to see dozens of error messages. Apologies for the fault.

In the mean tine, look at the AIS pages - you do do this anyway, right?

**** Fixed as at 11am 4th May ****

Airspace changes - new transition level

The airspace has been changed for the new UK 6,000 foot transition level. Please inform me if you spot any mistakes.

Major changes have been made to Daventry CTA and surrounding airspace.

Also minor bugs fixed - 'show default airspace' on the UK map now works properly, and a debugging alert message removed on Google Earth button.

Emails and Spam

Some users are using various anti-spam email systems that rely on the addressee to manually reply to the user, to confirm that the address is not a source of spam. All emails from this site will appear to be from 'dave' or from 'robot' at notaminfo.com. In reality, I have nothing to do with them - they are all automatically generated. Please, if you must use such a system, add the two addresses (or the domain) to your white list before registering.

In addition, please don't send 'out-of-office' auto replies to the robot email account. White-list it, or turn O-O-F replies off.

Thanks.

While we're on the subject of spam, the emails from notaminfo do look like spam to many email filters. Not receiving your emails? That's probably because the emails are in your spam folder.