[nws-changes] Fwd:TAF-Frenchville-ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:34:59 -0600

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Technical Implementation Notice 12-16
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1245 PM EDT Mon Mar 26 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 Frenchville Airport (KFVE) in Northern
          ME, Effective May 4, 2012

Note:     The following changes have no impact on NOAA Weather
          Wire Service Subscribers

Effective Effective Friday, May 4, 2012, at 1800 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), the NWS office in Caribou, ME, will begin
TAF service for the Frenchville airport (KFVE) in northern Maine.
Routine and updated TAFs will be issued for this airport 24 hours
per day.

This implementation date reflects a change to the notice below.

www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/pns12frenchville_me_taf.htm

NWS personnel will need to add the following identifier to their
Communications systems to receive the new TAF:

Airport Name        WMO Heading    AWIPS ID
-------------       ------------   -------
Frenchville         FTUS41 KCAR    TAFFVE

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:

     Richard Okulski
     Meteorologist-in-Charge
     NWS Caribou ME  04736
     207-492-0170
     Richard.Okulski@xxxxxxxx

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

     http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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