Introduction
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applies to a certain extent the principle of spelled out text in item E on words such as “closed”, “available”, “activation”, “active”, “activated” and “unserviceable”, and on acronyms that are not commonly known.
- Doubts about ATC, they might not like the change from Upper case to sentence case. Therefore a warning could be added in the specification that the presentation of the NOTAM text to specific groups of users should be verified first. For pilots there is no doubt, they prefer sentence case (see ePIB). For users that prefer upper case only, the conversion in straight-forward.
OTHER Aspects
- NOTAM reason for closure or similar, are they really necessary in a NOTAM?
- Use of NOTAM for NIL digital data set notifications
o Does it make sense to use NOTAM in order to correct a data set? The information could be used by technical / operational support, not by the end user (pilot). However, that should not appear in the briefing package, because the change will be done by the
Reference documents
[1] Some of the listed abbreviations are in fact acronyms, e.g. “ACC”, but are included as in this case part of the family of air traffic services types.
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