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EUROCONTROL Digital NOTAM Project |
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Digital NOTAM Trial - 2008 |
A large scale Digital NOTAM Trial has been organised by EUROCONTROL to validate the AIXM capability to provide digital NOTAM.
The initial part of the Trial already demonstrated that the AIXM 5.0 model is sufficiently mature to support the Digital NOTAM concept. The Trial also identified some modelling deficiencies, which were corrected. The result of the AIXM 5.0 testing and validation phase was issued under a new version number (AIXM 5.1) in 2009. This is the version that was proposed for the initial operational implementation of Digital NOTAM.
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The Trial has demonstrated that with a relatively small investment (200 k€) it is possible to develop a basic HMI that can be successfully be used by today’s NOTAM operators to provide the desired Digital NOTAM output.
A similar trial has been organised by the FAA, focused on airport NOTAM submission. Their objective was to capture the data from the authoritative source using an application interface that is intuitive for the Airport Manager, communicate the data in AIXM 5 format, validate and publish into the Federal NOTAM system. The FAA Trial is part of a larger AIM modernisation process that includes issuing ICAO formatted NOTAM and finalises with the publication of digital NOTAM in AIXM 5 format, starting around 2011.
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Digital SNOWTAM Trial - 2009 |
The Digital SNOWTAM Trial was launched in November 2009 and will run until March 2010. It has the active participation of the EAD, airports, airlines and NOTAM offices. It builds on the results of the Digital NOTAM Trial and aims to develop a pre-operational application that demonstrates the benefits of digital NOTAM to the end users.
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Key Facts:
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The application provides an Airport Overview page which displays the current SNOWTAM situation across the world |
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It offers a graphical view of the airport surfaces’ status (contaminant and friction coefficient) in the European area. It makes use of detailed Aerodrome Mapping Databases where they are available |
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It displays the SNOWTAM that are received through the EAD |
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The Trial makes use of the AIXM 5.1 “Surface Contamination” model |
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The data is available in visual format using the application and also in AIXM 5.1 format using a REST interface |
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Last validation: 13/01/2010
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