Getting a Briefing

You obtain a briefing using AES, the Web interface of ANAIS.

You fill in and submit a web form.
The form performs some basic validation and submits a data string to the ANAIS server.  This is used to run a query on the NOTAM database and extract records relevant to the briefing you have requested.

This data string contains the type of query and the parameters required to run it. Some parameters will be what you have entered, some will be fixed information derived from code on the page from which you submitted the data.

ANAIS runs the query against the database. Errors in the data (e.g. an invalid ICAO designator) will return an error message, otherwise the results of the query will be returned to your browser, formatted and displayed on a web page.

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ANAIS can handle many different types of query.

Available Briefings

Aerodrome Briefing

This briefing will only provide you with NOTAM affecting facilities or aids at the airfields you select. It will not provide you with any information outside of the ATZ. This briefing is particularly useful to pilots practicing Instrument Procedures at an aerodrome.

Area Briefing

Is designed to give Aerodrome and En-Route NOTAM for up to 30 Flight information Regions. You can set the validity period and content required according to ICAO defined parameters.
The briefing will contain information for ALL Licensed Airfields within the selected FIR's. This is a relatively cumbersome brief and not much used.

Route Briefing

The briefing will contain information for the whole FIR through which the route passes BUT NOT all the Licensed Airfields as in the Area Briefing.
Airfields included will be the AD of departure and destination and any additional airfields you have entered. If additional AD are required, insert the ICAO Location Indicator in the additional airfields. (DO NOT CONFUSE WITH NARROW ROUTE BRIEF). Again this is a relatively cumbersome brief from which it can be difficult to extract relevant information.

Narrow Route Briefing

This is the brief most commonly used by pilots flying from A to B. It is designed to give you NOTAM for your departure and arrival aerodromes plus up to 20 alternates and en-route data for 4000 feet either side of a  user-selectable flight level. Route must be defined using the same syntax as an ICAO Flight Plan. You can set the validity period and content required according to ICAO defined parameters. The first an last legs will contain NOTAM from surface to 4000ft above your chosen upper FL. The en-route legs will contain NOTAM 4000ft either side of your chosen FL.

VFR FIR Brief

Two of these are available, one for each of the UK FIR's. They are a straight one-click brief with no need to fill in any parameters. This is a very useful brief for the notice board at an airfield. Data is sorted geographically, making it easier to see which NOTAM will affect your flight.

VFR Aerodrome Brief

Again, two of these are available, one for each of the UK FIR's. They list all licensed aerodromes within the FIR in alphabetic order of aerodrome name. They are a straight one-click brief with no need to fill in any parameters. This is a very useful brief for the notice board at an airfield.

If you have finished with what exists at the moment and want to see our ideas for the future please click here.

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This page last updated on 30-Jun-2003
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