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NOTAMs available online!

I don't think I've posted this already, but I just found that you can search the FAA NOTAM database online. Go to

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and then enter the TLA for your closest airport to see NOTAMs for your area. Right now, if you put in ORD or DPA you'll see 2 unmanned rocket launches for this weekend.

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Bob Kaplow
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So how do you read one?, e.g.

PXR PHOENIX

!PRC 11/018 PXR UNMANNED ROCKET 3 NMR PXR231021/10 S GYR 12000/BLW WEF

0411061500-0411062200
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bit eimer

Go back trhee steps to

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and you'll find

7930.2 Notice to Airmen (NOTAM's) Approved NOTAM Contractions
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most specifically chapter 6-2-1 Formatting Airspace NOTAM (D)

please dont aske me to explain further. at the EAA airshow in oshkosh, I had the chance to either learn about NOTAMs or to listen to Burt Rutan talk. which one would you have picked

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tater schuld

Here's what I've been able to figure out so far. If any one knows better, or has corrections, please reply...

!PRC The issuing flight service station

11/018 some sort of sequence number PXR is the airport designation. Unmanned rocket should be obvious 3 NMR nautical mile radius PXR231021 PXR VOR 231 radial 021 nautical miles /10 S GYR not sure what the is, perhaps GYR is another nearby airport 12000/BLW feet msl and below WEF not sure about 0411061500 YYMMDDHHMM Zulu (GMT) 0411062200 "

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

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