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 ...

Imagine the surprise of the crew repainting the runway numbers when they saw a Cessna 172 with two people on board coming in for a landing. There were traffic cones blocking the approach end of the ...

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 ...

It seems like one of the simplest flights possible. Grab your flight bag and head off to the airport to practice some touch-and-goes. There is obviously no need for flight planning. The weather is ...

The Ohio State University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Aviation is full of acronyms, and Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, is one acronym that pilots learn early on ...

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 ...

Notams, as presented today, are all equally weighted, meaning the importance of the “lawnmowers adjacent to a runway” has the same weight as a runway being closed. Nothing is prioritized. The final ...

DALLAS, TEXAS - JANUARY 11: Delayed flights prepare to depart from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) The Federal Aviation Administration is considering ...

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.

The FAA has released a raft of notams ahead of the January 19 launch of AT&T and Verizon’s new 5G networks. Enhanced flight vision systems (EFVS) are among the avionics that could be affected by the ...

At 12 a.m. Thursday the Federal Aviation Administration began a massive drop of 1,500 notices to airmen (NOTAMs) related to the commencement of 5G service next Wednesday. The NOTAMs range from simple ...