[nws-changes] 20110808: web enables intl flight folderFwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:16:11 -0600

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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
Dennis.J.Mcduffy@xxxxxxxx

For other questions about this change, 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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