Originally Posted by cardiomd

All right... ???

G1000 - displays TFR areas as red shaded on the moving map, updated all via FIS-B near real-time (I think every 2-5 mins or so) parsed from the coordinates in the NOTAM. Most GA flightbag software has similar features - most popular now is foreflight, which will put graphical NOTAM up right on the sectional. NEXTRAD wx on screen with near real-time update on my moving map in G1000. In FF there is ability to have your current position rendered on approach charts, and I think the NOTAMS are also there graphically (or at least a little direct link on the next page.)

It seems as though you haven't played with any of these in the past year or two? Nextgen has made huge headway even since I've started flying, and ADS-B is all over the East. Once 2020 rolls around GA will be safer when out is required.

Nowdays the SA tools we GA pilots play with will be implemented sooner than stuff you guys use, but yeah, the technology is there with NextGen.

What specifically do you mean in the video? I doubt it is possible / desirable to display some of the others because NOTAMS are currently lightweight text transmission and so are approach charts, etc. which are rendered.

So, translating something like "TAXIWAY B CLOSED TO AIRCRAFT >100 FT WINGSPAN BETWEEN F AND H DUE TO VEGETATION" would be exceedingly difficult to "display" on the moving map. In fact, it would then depend on the type of aircraft you are operating whether to display, and any rendering on the airport taxiway diagram would be very prone to error compared to text.

Once you move NOTAMs away from text (these still have legacy of morse-based transmission similar to METAR), then you'd have to have a simple version plus a graphical in order to make it human readable without significant computing power.... With a full and lightweight NOTAM you would then have to make sure they are coordinated, and the complexity rises significantly.