How do you submit a NOTAM?

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Hello,

New to aviation and I would like to know how to submit a NOTAM. I plan
to launch an unmanned free balloon a few months from now with a
payload of scientific instruments weighing less than 4lbs. The
projected flight-path will take the balloon only through CLASS G and A
airspace (and maybe Class E). According the FAA, an unmanned free-
balloon with a payload less than 4 lbs does not require prior
notification before launch. However, I think it would be prudent to
submit a NOTAM.

I would love to hear anyone's experience on on unmanned free-balloons
- should I really not worry about the NOTAM? Either way, I would like
to know more about submitting them.

Thanks,
John


The experts on this sort of thing are over on rec.models.rockets...

Really.

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:51:34 -0400, "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea
Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote:


The experts on this sort of thing are over on rec.models.rockets...

Really.


I second that.

Really.

Note the "Unmanned Rocket" NOTAMS in a given area.

On Aug 31, 7:45 pm, B A R R Y wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:51:34 -0400, "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea
Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote:



The experts on this sort of thing are over on rec.models.rockets...

Really.

I second that.

Really.

Note the "Unmanned Rocket" NOTAMS in a given area.


I'll ask the rocket group, but FAA the rules for unmanned free-
balloons are very different from the rockets.

-John

On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, wrote:
On Aug 31, 7:45 pm, B A R R Y wrote:

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:51:34 -0400, "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea
Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote:

The experts on this sort of thing are over on rec.models.rockets...

Really.

I second that.

Really.

Note the "Unmanned Rocket" NOTAMS in a given area.

I'll ask the rocket group, but FAA the rules for unmanned free-
balloons are very different from the rockets.

-John


I did some more searching on the web and I think I found my answers.
Thanks all.

-John

john. wrote I did some more searching on the web and I think I found my
answers.

Thanks all.

Well, don't leave us hangin', dude!

I'm sure that I'm not the only one that is curious as to what you found out.
That's how it is around here; always anxious to learn something that I
didn't know when I got out of bed this morning.

At least that is the way I am!
--
Jim in NC

you will need to contact the local FAA Flight Standards District Office for
the assist formatting and issuing the proper NOTAM.
you do not have the authority to issue a notam


wrote in message
ups.com...
Hello,

New to aviation and I would like to know how to submit a NOTAM. I plan
to launch an unmanned free balloon a few months from now with a
payload of scientific instruments weighing less than 4lbs. The
projected flight-path will take the balloon only through CLASS G and A
airspace (and maybe Class E). According the FAA, an unmanned free-
balloon with a payload less than 4 lbs does not require prior
notification before launch. However, I think it would be prudent to
submit a NOTAM.

I would love to hear anyone's experience on on unmanned free-balloons
- should I really not worry about the NOTAM? Either way, I would like
to know more about submitting them.

Thanks,
John

wrote:


I would love to hear anyone's experience on on unmanned free-balloons
- should I really not worry about the NOTAM? Either way, I would like
to know more about submitting them.


Check with your local hams too. I know the ham club at work does at
least one
balloon launch a year here in the DFW area. The last one they had to
delay for a
week due to the announcement of a TFR that was right in the flight
path and they
would have to transit through it. ARRL can put you intouch with your
local guys if
you don't know any.