What does the NOTAM contraction PAEW mean?
We have heard it before, “A good pilot is always learning.” Well, I learned something this morning and I wanted to share it with you.
I was doing some preflight planning and I ran across this NOTAM:
Rwy 3/21 PAEW ADJ
I did a little research and learned that PAEW ADJ stands for:
Personnel and equipment on or adjacent to runway
So what that probably means is that people are most likely mowing the airport and might be in the vicinity of the runway so I better do my best to keep it on the centerline.
Here is the link where I learned this information:
http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/ntm/not0501.html
Fly Safe.
Paul Tocknell is a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) from Dayton, Ohio. In addition to being a CFI, Paul is also a corporate pilot with over 4,000 hours of flight time. Paul enjoys helping answer flight training questions on his blog at askacfi.com Read more from this instructor« What is EMAS? | Home | What is FADEC? »
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Someone needs to tell these people that the they ways of the telegraph are dead! I get so tired trying to decipher some of these Notams. Thanks for the info!
No problem. I’ll try and post some more contractions as I come across them. I’m finding new ones all the time and a google search usually comes up empty.
Bookmark the NOTAM and METAR & TAF decoders on my website and you’ll never again wonder what a contraction means.
Best regards,
Jerry Miller
Anthony,
I know it seems archaic, but for the professionals out there, we do not want to wade through pages of “plain language” fluff. We just want to get the information and go, and the undecoded works great for us.
Sam.
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