Unicom
November 2003 Issue
Unicom 11/03: Notam News
Notam dissemination isn’t perfect, but they’re working on it
I am writing today regarding the “Notam Mania” article [Airmanship, September] that discussed flight restrictions. The Bureau of Land Management has been the only government agency to graphically plot all TFRs since July 2001 – and still is the only one doing it. See http://airspace.blm.gov.
The key word here is ALL. Duats, the prototype FAA website and the NTAP FAA page at do not map all TFRs. As a matter of fact they can leave a large volume unmapped. The AOPA site refers you to ours to get information on wildfires.
The Duats system is nice, but still does not plot all the TFRs. It leaves out the stadiums and the nuclear facilities...
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