[SBE] FAA Flight Service Stations

[Dan Mammone]

I also found a way to look at the NOTAM itself, to ensure that it is listed... or not listed.

Go to the following link - https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/geo/radiusForm.html

Or in case they make changes to their website, navigate to it: www.faa.gov, NOTAMs link under Pilots section, Radius & Flight Path Search tab.

Enter your tower coordinates, or location code if you know it. You will see a listing of current NOTAMs. To find your tower, use find on your tower registration number.

I found that it took about 24 hours for changes to be applied.

One thing of note is that the NOTAMs site gives me a certificate error (WinXP SP2, IE7), but I continued to the site anyway. No problems in site function have been encountered.

Dan Mammone, CBRE, CBNT
Broadcast Engineer
Delmarva Broadcasting
 
-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Paonessa
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:53 PM
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: [SBE] FAA Flight Service Stations


In case you missed it, there was a paper released October 10, 2007 detailing the conversion of FAA Flight Service Stations to contractor operation.  Lockheed-Martin is the contractor.
 
Here's the link to the statement by the USDOT Inspector General: 
http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/FSS_Testimony_Web_File.pdf
 
I certainly missed it; if we had not called in a failed top beacon last night we would not have discovered this news.  Apparently the news has been out since May 18, 2007 that the San Angelo Flight Service Station would close in June, 2007:
http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/final_w-508.pdf
 
Lockheed-Martin won the contract in February, 2005 and it went into effect in October, 2005.  The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has not been impressed with the contract operation:
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/air_traffic/a76_process.html
 
The take away from all this is that no matter how much we think we read about the broadcast industry and the peripherals that affect our careers, there is no such thing as too much reading.
 
You never know what you might miss.
 
Best regards,
 
Jerry Paonessa
Assistant Director of Technology
KENS-TV/DT
210-377-8778
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