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The Next Frontier for Notams
FAA is upgrading technologies while information providers improve displays
Cell phone tower
Pilots become jaded by the many tower-related notams in the FAA database, but it nevertheless is critical information. © AdobeStock

The notices from the county planning commission went up first. I registered the white posters with bold lettering on my morning stroll just as my neighbor walked up to me to tell me what they meant.

“They wanted to put in a new cell tower,” she said as she gestured up the hill to the crest of a pasture that often held a passel of dairy cows. What she didn’t say: We hope everyone’s okay with all this new technology rising up in the midst of farm fields held by Mennonite families for the past nine generations.