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Service
Change Notice 11-32
National
Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
320 PM Mon EDT Sep 12, 2011
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information
Network
-NOAAPort
Other NWS partners and employees
From: Cynthia
Abelman
Chief, Aviation Services Branch
Subject: Facsimile-Based
International Flight Folder
Documentation Program (IFFDP) Termination
Effective February 28, 2012
Effective
Tuesday February 28, 2012, at 1400 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Aviation
Weather Center (AWC) will cease all facsimile transmissions of the legacy IFFDP.
AWC IFFDP fax services will no longer be available. Effective February 28, IFFDP
data will only be available through the Web International Flight Folder
Documentation Program (WebIFFDP). WebIFFDP is
operational and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Before using the WebIFFDP
service, authorized users must register by going to the following web address:
http://aviationweather.gov/webiffdp/
As a
contracting state of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the
United States is obligated to provide flight documentation services to the
international aviation community. Since October 1, 1998, in accordance with
Chapter 9 of Annex 3 to the Convention on Civil Aviation, the AWC has provided
the required meteorological information to airline operators and flight crew
members for the purposes of dispatch planning, preflight briefing and enroute
guidance as a fax-based system of distribution. This fax-based system is now
obsolete and expensive for NWS and its users to maintain. WebIFFDP has been available to users since January 4, 2011, and became operational on
September 12, 2011.
The
new WebIFFDP system offers users a Qualified Internet Communications Provider
(QICP) certified Website for obtaining international aviation weather
information. QICP is a certification by the FAA that a Website meets specific
security, availability and transaction-time standards. WebIFFDP also introduces
users to an enhanced service which includes custom virtual Flight Folders and
other features not available through the fax-based system.
For
technical questions and support in registering user access for WebIFFDP, please
contact:
Jim McDuffy
Aviation
Weather Center
Kansas
City, MO 64153
816-584-7263
If you
have any questions or comments about this change, or the WebIFFDP service,
please contact:
Michael
Pat Murphy
Warning
Coordination Meteorologist
Aviation
Weather Center
Kansas
City, MO 64153
816-584-7239
National
Technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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