Step 1 (open screen)
Select Pre-Flight Briefing > Area PIB. The Area PIB screen appears.
Area PIB Screen
Step 2 (define briefing options)
The system allows you to enter filter criteria concerning the message types that you want to have included in the PIB.
Message Type
You may select an additional message type or types that you want to have included in your PIB: SNOWTAM, ASHTAM and/or BIRDTAM); these are optional. However, standard NOTAM will be included every time. Additionally you may select to have METEO and/or miscellaneous information available in your PIB.
Briefing Type
Briefing type lets you choose which kind of NOTAM you wish to have included in your PIB: international, national and/or military NOTAM. One of the check boxes must be selected (if none are selected, an error message will be raised).
Flight Rules
The system requires you to select one of the flight rules.
IFR stands for Instrument Flight Rules. A flight conducted in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules is an IFR flight.
VFR stands for Visual Flight Rules. A flight conducted in accordance with the Visual Flight Rules is a VFR flight.
The third option is a combination of IFR and VFR.
Step 3 (define FIRs)
In the Identifier field enter the ICAO location
indicator of the FIR(s) for which you want to generate the PIB and click
the 
button.
Below the FIRs table, Total
displays the current number of FIRs.
The ICAO location indicator of FIRs consists of a four-letter code. |
If you do not know
the ICAO location indicator, click on the 
button. The Search FIRs page
appears and allows you to search for a FIR. You can search for a FIR by
ICAO code or the FIR name. Enter part of the ICAO code (for example, LO
or ED) or the other fields and click Search. All FIRs that meet
the entered search criteria are displayed.
Note:
If part or all of an FIR ICAO
code was entered prior to clicking the button,
the ICAO Code search field in the search window will be pre-filled with
what was already entered in the respective form field.
Search for FIRs.
Click on the FIRs you want to add to your PIB. The selected FIR appears now in the FIR list.
Step 4 (define vertical filter)
Define the Lower FL (default 0) and Upper FL (default 999).
Step 5 (define validity)
From time is calculated on the basis of the client time. The client time is converted to UTC time according to the set time zone. To time displays the From time plus 24 hours.
Define the time range for which you want to have NOTAM included in the PIB. All NOTAM and messages of other selected message types that are valid within the selected time range will be included in the PIB.
To define the From
and To dates, either
type in the values manually or use the Calendar pop-up. To open
the Calendar pop-up, click the 
button. Select
a month and day and click OK. The entered date must be the current
date or a date in the future.
Step 5 (generate PIB)
To generate the Area PIB, click on the Generate button. The PIB lists NOTAM by aerodromes.
The header of the PIB displays some of the selected filter criteria, for example:
Generation date and time of the bulletin in UTC
Selected Validity time period of PIB in UTC
Selected Service Type
Selected Flight Rules (either IFR, VFR or IFR/VFR)
Message types included in the PIB
Selected FIR(s)
Contents of PIB
Selected briefing type(s)
A disclaimer is included at the end of the PIB and for each empty section.
Example of an Area PIB
Step 6 (optional: send PIB in email)
The PIB can be
sent via e-mail. To send the PIB to one or more e-mail recipients, click
the mail symbol (
). The Email addresses
dialog opens:
Send PIB via e-mail
When entering multiple e-mail addresses in the Recipient field, separate each one by a semicolon (;). Do not include any spaces.
Step 7 (optional: generate PDF)
The
PIB can be exported to a PDF file by clicking on the PDF symbol (
).