America's airspace shut down for several hours Wednesday morning following a glitch in a computer system used to send alerts to pilots. The Federal Aviation Administration said that its Notice to Air ...

Aviation is full of acronyms, and Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, is one acronym that pilots learn early on in their training. A NOTAM is quite simply a message that is disseminated to flight crews ...

NOTAMs contain a variety of information for pilots, including essential safety-critical data. But cockpit representatives are dismayed over the sheer quantity of NOTAMs with which pilots are presented ...

Conditions can change quickly in the air and on the ground at airports, and the Federal Aviation Administration's Notice to Air Missions messages are designed to keep aviation personnel up to speed.

Cockpit crew representatives are backing efforts to overhaul of the NOTAM system this year, claiming that the repository of aeronautical information has become cluttered, inefficient and burdensome.

This is a follow-on article to 'A (Bad) Landing Surprise' Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) does not publish CVR transcripts, so we don’t have a word-for-word record of what exactly was said ...