As you will have noticed, the NOTAM maps don't work properly. (Actually they're OK, just rather murky - click the 'OK' button and they'll function just fine). This is due to 'Do No Evil' Google being a bit, er, evil. They're starting to charge for maps. They also appear to be charging 2 or 3 times for every map issued. This complicates things somewhat. My statistics indicate about 16,000 maps were issued by this website in November, but Google have issued dummy invoices for 49,000 maps... They now say that my 'free trial' is over, hence the error messages.

If I can't resolve this, the annual bill will be about £2,000, as far as I can tell, which would make the website cost me a load of money to run.

I'm looking at Boxmap as an alternative supplier. I've already converted all the non-NOTAM maps to use Boxmap instead of Google. Boxmap also charge, but have a higher free limit (50,000 maps per month), and the chargeable excess maps are a little cheaper. If they only charge me once per map, the problem is solved.

If anyone has mapping experience, and can recommend any other map supplier. I'm all ears. I have looked at OpenStreetMap, but they don't want high volume access.

In the meantime, please put up with the slightly dodgy maps :0)

The map pages have been modified after a request to lose all those German wind farm NOTAMs (more than 1200 of them!). All map pages now have an option to hide NOTAMs for obstacles. Similarly, if the maps contain kite flying or firework display NOTAMs, these can also be hidden.

4 Jul 2018: European-style distances written with decimal commas, eg '3,5NM', are now recognised correctly.

Can I restate once more that this web site is not the official source of NOTAMs; it merely takes the official sources, and displays them in human-readable form. If you want to raise a NOTAM, or query one, then please contact the official source, not myself, thanks.

eg for the UK, the addresses are at the top of every briefing, viz:

UK Aeronautical Information Service (NATS)
Website: www.ais.org.uk
Email: eg_notamprop@ead.eurocontrol.int
UK AIS Telephone: +44 (0)1489 612488

Please do get in touch with me if you think that I'm displaying a NOTAM incorrectly - that is under my control.

PS Some of you are not receiving emails again. I am aware of this problem, and am trying to sort it out permanently.

a) Three new countries have been added: Italy, Sweden and Cyprus. Due to performance issues with the UK AIS web site, these countries may have their NOTAMs sourced from the FAA. Later on, some other countries may also be sourced from there. Airspace for northern Cyrus is a guess, based on sparse documentation. If anyone has a reliable source for this, please let me know, via the 'contact' page.

b) A bug has been fixed whereby NOTAMs for unexpected FIRs (those outside the country's jurisdiction) were always regarded as 'new', regardless of creation date.

c) Previously, if the AIS website failed to deliver NOTAMs, this program deleted the 'missing' ones. They were then reinstated on a later successful transaction. This resulted in NOTAMs being marked as 'new' .This will no longer happen.

d) Users with country of 'Spain and Portugal' have had their country changed to 'Spain', unless they had an email ending in '.pt', in which case they have been changed to 'Portugal' Some of these will be incorrect, but it will make no difference - they will still see the combined Iberia map. Similarly, users in Belgium and the Netherlands have had their country changed to 'Netherlands', unless their email ended '.be'.

e) The 'latest briefing' page has been changed. You can now view the briefings for any of the countries covered by this web site from the one page. Also available is the briefing history; all NOTAM briefings from the last month are now viewable.

f) A long-standing bug, whereby some people received two emails during busy slots (6/7/8am) has been squashed.

Austria and Switzerland are now available on the international maps. Italy will be the next country to be added.

Aerodrome-only NOTAMs are back! Due to a decision by AIS, it was no longer possible to obtain NOTAMs for aerodromes within the area brief. Instead, you now have to get separate aerodrome briefs, specifying the ICAO code for every single one, thirty at a time. Thanks very much, AIS. Sorry it took this long, but it was very complicated...

Other good news - the robots have been defeated by the new Captcha, and are no longer a concern. To try to stop them, I set up the web site to send an email to every person registering. It seems that a lot of you are not responding to this email, or you got your email address wrong. Whatever, I am now deleting all accounts with no response to the email after a week. Similarly, if you haven't set up your local area(in 'Set up maps and Feeds' above),, I will do it for you - and put you in a close bit of ocean.

More stuff - I've added the Benelux countries, Norway, Denmark and Malta to the international maps. No NOTAMs at the moment, but they will be along as soon as this update settles down. If you see any mistakes in them, please use the contact form to tell me.