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Technical Implementation Notice 11-40
National Weather Service Headquarters
Washington DC
247 PM Wed
EDT Aug 8, 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: Web-Enabled International Flight Folder
Documentation Program Operational
Effective Monday, September 12, 2011,
at 1400 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Aviation Weather Center (AWC)
in Kansas City, MO, will implement the Web-Enabled International Flight Folder
Documentation Program (WebIFFDP) as an operational system. WebIFFDP will eventually replace
the facsimile-based International Flight Folder Documentation Program (IFFDP).
Beginning September 12, 2011, WebIFFDP will be operationally available 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. Before using the 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, pre-flight briefing and en-route guidance as a
facsimile-based system of distribution.
The new WebIFFDP system offers users a Qualified Internet Communications Provider (QICP)
certified Website for obtaining international aviation weather information.
QICP is an FAA certification that a Website meets specific security,
availability and transaction-time standards. WebIFFDP also introduces users to an enhanced Web experience that includes custom virtual
Flight Folders and other services not available through the current 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
For other questions about this change,
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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