Hello,

My second question comes to visualization of NOTAMs.

When there is a NOTAM that deactivates some restricted airspace (for instance in France or Belgium as these two countries are heavily "in the war" from Monday to Friday ), would this airspace disappear from the map or it remains in the map and just a circle indicating a NOTAM would appear over this (deactivated) airspace?

Second thing - I planned my route for Saturday (time specified in the flight details tab) thus expecting the military airspaces disappear from the map. Though, they did not. (They disappear once I click on the weekend view in the snapping tool). Does it mean that the map does not adjust automatically for the conditions set in the flight details tab? (this is closely linked to the question above - showing just active airspaces for a concrete flight time).

Thank you.

Milan

ELLX

Hello Milan,

NOTAM are plotted on the map but we do not interpret them as far as hiding other pieces of airspace based on the NOTAM's contents. This would be quite dangerous as until XML NOTAM is here, we would be relying on correctly parsing plain English (or French!) which one can never do with 100% reliability. You will instead see the NOTAM depicted on the map with its circle of influence.

We also intentionally do not hide pieces of airspace based on your takeoff time. You must explicitly turn on the weekend view feature to hide that airspace.

OK, I was not aware of the technical details behind the software



now it is clear



do I understand correctly that once the NOTAMs are in xml it could actually be possible?

do you see any move in this direction in the industry?



thank you

Milan

At some point the industry will switch to digital NOTAM, which contain much more descriptive information that is machine-readable. When it does switch, SkyDemon will be ready to take full advantage of it. But while they are mostly just free text, it would be dangerous for us to interpret them to any great degree.

OK

that is a good news; I hope it will happen rather soon than later...

thanks

Milan