NOUS41
KWBC 261646
PNSWSH
Technical
Implementation Notice 12-15
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
1240 PM EDT Mon
Mar 21 2012
To National Weather Service (NWS) Offices
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Family of Services (FOS) Subscribers
Other Customers of NWS Aviation
Forecasts
From Cynthia Abelman
Chief, Aviation Services Branch
Subject: Implementation of Terminal Aerodrome
Forecast (TAF) Service for Pittsfield
Municipal
Airport (KPSF) Effective May 4, 2012
Effective Friday, May 4,
2012, at 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS office at Albany, New
York, will begin TAF service for Pittsfield Municipal Airport (KPSF) in Massachusetts.
Routine and updated TAFs will be issued for this airport 24 hours a day.
This date reflects a
change to the notice below.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/pns12kpsf_tafcca.htm
NWS personnel/offices will
need to add the following identifier
to their communications systems to receive the new
TAF:
Airport WMO Heading AWIPS ID
--------------------------- ------------ -------
Pittsfield Municipal
Airport FTUS41 KALY TAFPSF
In
addition, the new TAF will be added to the existing TAF collectives below,
which are transmitted to FAA personnel and other external users
WMO
HEADINGS Available to the
following customers
FTUS80 KWBC NON‑FAA Domestic And Family Of Services
FTUS90 KWBC FAA Weather Message Switching Center
and FAA Facilities
FTUS52 KWBC Global Telecommunication System
Customers
Holders
of NWS procedural instruction 10‑813, Terminal Aerodrome
Forecasts, should make the
addition to the appendices.
For
questions regarding this TAF change, please contact:
Ray O’Keefe
Meteorologist in Charge
NWS Albany New York
Albany, NY 12203
518-435-9581
National Public Information Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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