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Public Information Notice
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
215 PM EDT Mon Mar 21 2012
To National Weather Service (NWS) Offices
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Family of Services (FOS) Subscribers
Other Customers of NWS Aviation Forecasts
From Cynthia Abelman
Chief, Aviation Services Branch
Subject: Implementation of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF)
Service for Pittsfield Municipal Airport (KPSF)
Effective May 1. 2012
Effective Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at 1800 Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC), the NWS office at Albany, New York, will begin TAF
service for Pittsfield Municipal Airport (KPSF)in Maine. Routine
and updated TAFs will be issued for this airport 24 hours a day.
NWS personnel/offices will need to add the following identifier
to their communications systems to receive the new TAF:
Airport WMO Heading AWIPS ID
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Pittsfield Municipal Airport FTUS41 KALY TAFPSF
In addition, the new TAF will be added to the existing TAF
collectives below, which are transmitted to FAA personnel and
other external users
WMO HEADINGS Available to the following customers
FTUS80 KWBC NON-FAA Domestic And Family Of Services
FTUS90 KWBC FAA Weather Message Switching Center
and FAA Facilities
FTUS52 KWBC Global Telecommunication System
Customers
Holders of NWS procedural instruction 10-813, Terminal Aerodrome
Forecasts, should make the addition to the appendices.
For questions regarding this TAF change, please contact:
Ray OKeefe
Meteorologist in Charge
NWS Albany New York
Albany, NY 12203
518-435-9581
Raymond.Okeefe@xxxxxxxx
National Public Information Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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