AspEdit manual      NOTAM setup dialog box

Purpose

Access

Functioning

• Linked airspace file
  select the airspace file related to the first FIR appearing in the NOTAM file.
  This has two purposes:
  • Include airspace areas that are refered to in the NOTAM by their name: AspEdit will look for the area in the linked file and copy the area in the generated output.
  • Use the default border specified in the linked file for all "along border" definitions encountered in the source NOTAM file.
  The linked file given here is used for all notams for the FIR indicated in the "FIR" field. If during the import another FIR is encountered, a dialog will pop-up allowing to selected the linked file for that FIR.
  The linked files for each FIR is stored in the ini file. The stored files will be proposed as default upon each NOTAM import session. If no linked file is given, AspEdit will use a circle as specified in the Q-record for each affected airspace area.
• Output
  Select the type of output: text and/or Excel, and wether the files should be opened automatically.
  
  • Colored lines: if selected the lines of the Excel file will have alternating colors. This may improve readablility.
  • Scale: sets the size of the table and text of the Excel file. This may help to print the Excel file within the width of a single page.
    
  • Verbose level: select the output in the generated text file:
    • 1: Only relevant notams are shown.
      Relevant means: meeting the requirements selected in this dialog box + meeting the filter requirements.
    • 2: Relevant areas + error messages (standard setting)
    • 3: 1 + 2 + debug output.
  The text file is intended mainly for debug output. If you want to report a bug, provide the source NOTAM file and the text file with verbose level 3.
• Valid from / valid to
  Select the requested start and end date & time. All NOTAM's that are not active within the selected interval will be disregarded.
• Sunrise / sunset
  NOTAM's may indicate activity times as sunrise or sunset. In these fields, enter the times of sunrise and sunset (UTC!).
• Highest level
  All NOTAM's with a bottom level above the value given here are disregarded.
• Include all NOTAM's
  Normally, only active + relevant NOTAM's will be included in the output. When this option is ticked, all NOTAM's will be included, regardless of filter and activity time settings.
  Confirmation will be asked.
• Reset Q-record filter settings to default
  Apart from the filter settings mentioned above, AspEdit uses a filter based upon the Q-record. It is not possible to edit these setting from within AspEdit. In order to change the settings, manually edit the file "NOTAM_Filter.txt" in the AspEdit folder. Via the "Reset Q-record filter settings to default" button, you can restore the default settings.