Hi,

I was just thinking of the new sim - that happens very often lately - and I get an idea or was hoping for something. Wouldn't it be cool, when we had real NOTAMS?

At least when flying online - or even offline- this feature would increase the realism extremely. How do I imagen this: Sometimes the ILS is INOP at airports due to maintenance or several other reasons. So why make the ILS INOP in the sim? As far as I know NOTAMS are standardized, so through AI it should be possible to implement that right? That could be one of the easist implementations. When it comes to stuff like simulating closed taxiways etc. I could imagen that this is more difficult to realize. Since I am not an expert an NOTAMS I don't know what else would be possible, however, this one aspect with the INOP ILS would be really cool.

 

Edited August 12, 20205 yr by 737_800

well...the ILS is not working right now so you might consider that as NOTAMS ?

Oh please no, don’t make me read more notams!

KLAX;

https://www.universalweather.com/regusers/publictools/corp_comp/metar_taf_notam.html?icao=KLAX

6 minutes ago, fogboundturtle said:

well...the ILS is not working right now so you might consider that as NOTAMS ?

Yes, it's a NOTAM. It's quite handy when pilots know before approach that a particular landing system in INOP. Makes sense, right?

3 minutes ago, 2reds2whites said:

Oh please no, don’t make me read more notams!

KLAX;

https://www.universalweather.com/regusers/publictools/corp_comp/metar_taf_notam.html?icao=KLAX

It needs to have a function to deactivate that feature. Like Real Weather yes/no. NOTAMS yes/no...

I am sure VATSIM/IVAO would evolve and we could find a way to extract only relevant NOTAMS for online flyers, so you wouldn't have to read endless pages...

The FMS in the CJ4 doesn't even allow you to go into the approach page. You can't even set the course #. So yeah. the plane has to be capable of handling that situation before we even try to start talking about NOTAMS. 

Edited August 12, 20205 yr by fogboundturtle

2 minutes ago, 737_800 said:

Yes, it's a NOTAM. It's quite handy when pilots know before approach that a particular landing system in INOP. Makes sense, right?

It needs to have a function to deactivate that feature. Like Real Weather yes/no. NOTAMS yes/no...

I am sure VATSIM/IVAO would evolve and we could find a way to extract only relevant NOTAMS for online flyers, so you wouldn't have to read endless pages...

The FAA has been trying to find a way to extract only relevant NOTAMs for actual pilots for a decade now...

14 minutes ago, fogboundturtle said:

The FMS in the CJ4 doesn't even allow you to go into the approach page. You can't even set the course #. So yeah. the plane has to be capable of handling that situation before we even try to start talking about NOTAMS. 

Just becaue the CJ4 does not have that feature doesn't mean other pilots with other aircraft can not benefit from that. I am not a real pilot I might be wrong. However, I just imagen ILS INOP in EDDF no one was aware of that would cause some stress. I mean it would lead to several G/A.

13 minutes ago, mtr75 said:

The FAA has been trying to find a way to extract only relevant NOTAMs for actual pilots for a decade now...

Are the actual provided NOTAMS the extracted ones? Would be quite horrible. As I said, the most of them are irrelevant for flight sim and probably even for real world and are just mentioned there too be on the save side regarding law etc.

Edited August 12, 20205 yr by 737_800

This would be incredible! But there are a lot of other things on my list that come ahead of this, like:

Accurate taxiway signs & updated airport runway numbers

More accurately modeled systems and functional autopilot

This would confused 99.5% of simmers....  

Just as a said, you could implement that as an option. The same like the weathe, you can choose there too if you want to fly with real weather or not. There would be still one button more, where the user had to choose, NOTAM yes or no. Nothing confusing about it, when you shortly explain what NOTAMS are about and warn them, that some stuff might not work.

Many payware aircraft have options to choose failures in the FMC. Why not having failures in the core sim? As I said, this is only interesting for hardcore simmers.

Of course this shouldnt be the first priority. After all the other issues are solved and the team can breath, why not then.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by 737_800

If Professional Flight Planner X become available for the new sim, you have full access to real-time NOTAMS. It's a great tool to use and I really hope Aerosoft will do something about it when it comes to the new sim. If e.g. NOTAMS has a note in it which says that e.g. ILS does not work on runway 19R, then it is only for you to don't make an ILS even if ILS works in the sim itself.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by bernhardsen74

15 hours ago, 737_800 said:

As far as I know NOTAMS are standardized, so through AI it should be possible to implement that right? That could be one of the easist implementations.

Pretty sure it isn't. Maybe they should be standardized but in fact you'll come across a ton of them with typos and other stuff, so I wouldn't exactly think it's one of the easiest things to parse those and extract their actual meaning out of them.

However I agree with you that airport equipment should have the ability to be settable (or failable, if you wish). I'd rather think of instructor station or ATC (VATSIM, POSCON etc.) usage there.

 

15 hours ago, 2reds2whites said:

Oh please no, don’t make me read more notams!

KLAX;

https://www.universalweather.com/regusers/publictools/corp_comp/metar_taf_notam.html?icao=KLAX

Yeah, no. I don't want that. We don't want that. That's a lotta NOTAMs. 😆

I've just had a thought. If NOTAM means "notice to airmen", does that mean that all female pilots can ignore them?

22 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I've just had a thought. If NOTAM means "notice to airmen", does that mean that all female pilots can ignore them?

Ohhhhhh, I could make a joke or several jokes, but nooooooo.  I ain't going there!