New NOTAM Guidance Issued
The FAA has issued new guidance to airport operators on how and when to issue a NOTAM and it appears to be an effort to clean up a system bogged down in irrelevant and confusing information. Advisory Circular 150/5200-28G has a host of housekeeping and updating sections, but it also issues some pointed instructions to those who send out NOTAMs on what they can and cannot contain. The AC says NOTAMs provide “timely information on unanticipated or temporary changes to components of, or hazards in, the National Airspace System (NAS).” It also says they’re not to be used for noise abatement procedures and if they last longer than 90 days they should either become a permanent NOTAM or become part of the regulations. It also specifies that Flight Service Stations be responsible to flag persistent NOTAMs and check with the operators about the “validity of NOTAMs lingering in the NOTAM system.”
