davem

I saw this thread on google, and can't let it rest here. FYI, night time operations are filtered from notaminfo's maps, unless you ask for them to be shown. You can only see them if you are registered and logged on. And, of course, if you have asked the site to send you emails, the 'missing' NOTAMs would have appeared. So stop worrying!

You haven't been paying attention, Norman That's what the flight level drop down list does...

1. Open airspace is not labelled on the map. There is no class B airspace in the UK. The gliding wave windows are sort of Class C. Class E is all in Scotland, except for a bizarre bit in Tees-side, which is going very soon (23 Oct). 2) Higher airspace overlaps lower, and is usually larger. All the different sections have different lower/higher limits. They overlap on my map because I draw a polygon to define one airspace, then another on top to draw its next-door neighbour. I attempt to draw the lower airspace on top of the higher, so that the higher doesn't obscure the lower. 3) Red lines indicate that the airspace goes down to the surface, and is thus effectively off limits to us. Though I guess with a motor, you can go over it... 3) Red lines on airspace above the surface were due to a bug - now squashed...

No problem. As others have said, not many people check NOTAMs anyway, becasue they're obscure, and a pain to get at. However, it seems the plot thickens. According to one of our members, there was a lone PPG who flew past the Marina, and right up to the conference hall, at low level. So who was he?

The video quite clearly says 'Oh dear, Steve gets a police escort'. So where does Bob come in? There have been loads of complaints re low flying along the coast from Hastings to Brighton, particularly about PPG pilots buzzing the public low along the beaches. Nearly every time I land out on the Newhaven-Brighton run, I get complaints. The CAA have been informed, and will take miscreants to court if sufficient proof is provided. While the mysterious 'Bob and Steve' may not have seen the NOTAMS, they sure as hell should know about the 500 foot rule. There is someone who regularly launches from the southern end of Telscombe Tye and annoys the public by illegal low flying. Is he Bob? Is he Steve? Or someone else? Get your act together guys; it's cool to buzz the beaches, and I know I'd be tempted myself, but it's illegal, and your day in court will come, and the result won't just be a telling off...

Can I briefly introduce myself as the author of the notams page. Some history: I wrote most of the website for the Southern Hang Gliding Club, and wrote a notams map page (originally a static map), because no one ever looked at NOTAMS, because it was simply too difficult. Having researched google maps, I thought I'd try to convert it to a google map, so that you could zoom in properly and see exactly where the restrictions were. Having done, that, it sort of grew out of hand; I couldn't stop myself, and the whole UK map was born. The reason that you haven't seen the site before is that it wasn't ready until a couple of weeks ago. It's a bit slow, because a) Our server is in Denver, USA, b) it uses a lot of javascript (try viewing the source!) and Google maps themselves use loads of javascript. So your computer is doing a lot of work, and so is Google their end. If it's too slow, try downloading the Google Chrome browser, which processes javascript much faster than any other browser. It used to get the aerodrome info as well as Nav Warnings and restrictions, but I discovered that there are about 750 of these any given day for a weekly look-ahead, so I dropped them as irrelevant to our sport. If you want them back, you can pay me lots of beer tokens At the moment, a routine runs every 6 hours (1am, 7am, 1pm, 7pm UK local time) and fetches the notam page, using the BHPA user name and password. I've no idea how often the AIS update the page for urgent stuff - anyone out there know? I'd think that if you looked at the 7am view, that you'd be covered. After all, AIS should be doing this job, not me. If Simon W. knows how to get a RSS feed out of it, I'd like to know how! I'm currently working on a few tweaks to make it simpler, and to put on some go-faster stripes. It should be ready in a few days. PS you can regard the flying sites as 'paramotor avoidance zones' Regards, Dave