Quick Rant: FAA site

[skyflyer8]

OK, who runs this joint?

The handy-dandy address to the NTAP (the notams pub that hardly anyone ever looks at) used to be: http://www.faa.gov/NTAP/

Now it's http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/air_traffic/publications/notices/

People, can't you leave the original and have it point to the new one for me?


EDIT: LOL, the address is so long that POA is automatically trimming it for me!!!

 

[TMetzinger]

The original DOES point to the new page... at least it did when I clicked on the first link in your post.

What was so hard about getting the "This page has moved" page, with a link to the new page? The only thing missing was the timed redirect.

Can I write you a guide?

 

[mikea]

What was so hard about getting the "This page has moved" page, with a link to the new page? The only thing missing was the timed redirect.

Can I write you a guide?

They didn't have an extra $20,000 in the web development budget.

 

[SkyHog]

The FAA's site is a joke anyways. LOL.

I've never had such a difficult time navigating such a simple site.

 

[skyflyer8]

What was so hard about getting the "This page has moved" page, with a link to the new page? The only thing missing was the timed redirect.

Can I write you a guide?

Yeah, 40 pages.

The problem, Tim, is that those "this page has moved" things only last so long on the FAA's site, and then you're back to searching. Even when I bookmark the new pages, they change often enough to be annoying.

 

[skyflyer8]

They didn't have an extra $20,000 in the web development budget.

Uh oh... I think I just promoted user fees.

 

[steingar]

The FAA: we're not happy until you're not happy. You expected otherwise?

 

[KennyFlys]

Yesterday, I was trying to find a specific order on airspace designation. It took forever when it came up with potential documents that were listed but then were indicated to no longer be in effect when brought up. Others I looked at were shown the same but certainly had later versions but they were not listed nor was a link provided to the latest version of a document.

 

[mikea]

Yesterday, I was trying to find a specific order on airspace designation. It took forever when it came up with potential documents that were listed but then were indicated to no longer be in effect when brought up. Others I looked at were shown the same but certainly had later versions but they were not listed nor was a link provided to the latest version of a document.

Google:

site:faa.gov "whatever"

That had the advantage that you can see the OLD pages and documents in the Google cache.