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This is highly informative. No seriously, it's probably the best thing I've read on NOTAMs. https://deathtonotams.com/ https://deathtonotams.com/ from there y
by rossjudson 4y ago
This is highly informative. No seriously, it's probably the best thing I've read on NOTAMs.
https://deathtonotams.com/ https://deathtonotams.com/
from there you can get to
https://fixingnotams.org/ https://fixingnotams.org/
and pilots won't stop laughing and crying when they read
https://fixingnotams.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Field-Guide-to-Notams-OpsGroup.pdf https://fixingnotams.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Field-Gu...
- rossjudson 4y agoAnd the answer to the question, "How many?" About 1.5 million per year.
- gojomo 4y agoThanks! It looks like individual messages are rarely more than one, under-80-character line long. So we're talking, (1.5M * 80 bytes=) 120MB a year, uncompressed. (With the tiny controlled-vocabulary, maybe 6x compression possible?) Every pilot could have a RAM-resident local queryable copy in a their commodity handheld devices.
- gojomo 4y agoThis is great stuff, thanks! Can't shake the feeling a tiny team of professional modern software/system designers, paired with some aerospace old hands, could create a far-better (but also backward-compatible) system in short order.