NOTAM Info

Add your flying site to the maps

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:24:35 +0000

The navigation menu (on the left) now has a link 'add a site' to a page that lets you set up your own flying site on the maps. If the site is an airfield, you may also specify the position of runways as well, laying them down exactly on the ground. You may also specify the activity carried out, so now balloon launch sites, paramotor sites, parachuting sites, etc, can be added. The sites will be marked as unverified, and marked with a white pin, until I have verified them.

Non-airfield sites are marked with a simple site marker. If the site is an airfield, you can add multiple runways. Move the start and end markers to indicate the start and end of each runway, then adjust the width with the edge markers. Every time you update a site, I will get an email with the site details. They will then be updated, and marked as valid soon after.

You will have to be a registered user, and logged in to add or alter a site's details.

Ireland and France added

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:52:18 +0000

...and lots more stuff done behind the scenes:

You can now set your home country to be 'Ireland', 'France' or 'UK+Channel Isles', The latter gives you NOTAMs from the UK plus the Brest FIR.
NOTAMs for Ireland and France will only be fetched daily, for the moment. Ireland doesn't have many; France has squillions.
Airfields, paragliding/hang gliding sites set up for France and Ireland. The former taken from the NOTAMs, the latter from paragliding Earth (Ireland) and the FFVL web site(France).
A very few gliding and microlight fields have been added, but only where I could see stuff on the ground.
Even if you are in one country, you can see the maps for other countries by going to the 'International maps' menu item on the left hand menu.
Sites have been rationalised somewhat - an airfield can now be listed with multiple uses, eg it can be a GA airfield, a glider field, a microlight field, and a winching site.
The display options for paraglding and hang gliding have been changed a little.
Airspace has been reorganised - airspace is now selected by type, rather than by class, eg you can select 'CTR' rather than 'Class A'.

Beware I may have made mistakes! Please bear with them until the changes have been bedded down.

Apologies for the 403 errors on the airfield charts; this is out of my control. I have asked that they be accessible again outside of the EAD web site. Watch this space...

Outage 11 Oct

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:36:34 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:10:34 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:03:51 +0000

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!

admin — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:53:40 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:13:12 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:33 +0000

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.

November update - Channel Isles

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:26:22 +0000

To cover the Channel Isles, NOTAMs are now fetched for the Brest FIR ('LFRR').
N.B. This will also retrieve NOTAMs with FIR of 'LFXX' (Overall French airspace). These are ignored.

EDIT: This removed temporarily, due to a conflict with UK NOTAMs, and a very dodgy internet connection this end. Watch this space.

Temporary restricted airspace over 10nm in radius will now be shown as a red outline, rather than as a solid red block.

October Update

admin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:55:42 +0000

Several Microlighting sites have been added, so that there are now 295 sites shown on the maps. These have been obtained from various sources, some rather old. If you know of any corrections, please let me know. Additionally, let me know about your microlight club, and web site, and I'll add that to the map.

The glider (sailplane) sites have been moved from the airspace section to the sites section on the maps, and are now indicated by blue markers, rather than the previous circles. The text popups now show the club operating from the airfields, and, where known, their web site.

A bug that had shown some hazards as restricted airspace has been fixed.

Areas of Intense Aerial Activity (AIAAs) have been added to the airspace. There is a new option to show hazards or not on the national map. Hazards include AIAAs, HIRTAs, Gas Venting Sites, Lasers, Radio masts, etc

Charts and info for ICAO airfields now loaded from Eurocontrol's web site rather than the AIS web site

Airspace updated.