[nws-changes] 20110912: Facsimile-based Intl flight folder-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20110912: Facsimile-based Intl flight folder-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:31:53 -0600

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Service Change Notice 11-32
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
322 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
Dennis.J.Mcduffy@xxxxxxxx

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
michael.pat.murphy@xxxxxxxx

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm

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