International Flight Folder Documentation Survey

OMB Control No. 0648-0342
Expiration Date: 07/31/08

NOAA Aviation Weather Center
International Flight Folder Documentation Program Questionnaire
Customer Information
1. How do you classify your operation (you may mark more than one).
___ Scheduled Airline
___ Cargo
___ Service provider, please specify__________________________________.
2. Indicate the type of flights supported by Flight Folder faxed weather products.
___ International
___ Domestic
___ Both

Product Need
3. Are you receiving faxes for the appropriate geographic regions of your routes?
___All products are completely appropriate for our flights.
___We do not need the following products:_______________________________________________
___Please add the following products:___________________________________________________
.
Use of Products
4. What role do Flight Folder faxed products play in your weather briefing process (mark only one)?
___ Sole source of information, used as a complete briefing package for flight crews.
___ Primary source of information but supplemented with other digital or hardcopy sources.
___ Used equally with other digital or hardcopy sources.
___ Secondary source used to supplement other primary digital or hardcopy sources.
___ Strictly a back up to other source(s).
___ Not used.
5. If you use Flight Folder faxed products as a primary weather source, do you have a reliable backup
source for those products?
___ Yes
___ No
6. What other sources of weather information do you use besides Flight Folder faxes, if any (mark all that
apply)?
___ Internal or other carrier’s meteorology office.
___ Scheduled faxes or digital products from paid commercial provider.
___ Web based products from paid commercial provider.
___ Free web based products.
___ Other, please specify________________________________________________

7. Please rate how necessary the following Flight Folder products are to a thorough weather brief for
your crews? Mark one box per row. Leave the row blank if you do not receive a particular product.
Required

Somewhat
useful

Not
useful

Significant Weather Charts #2101-2177
Wind/Temperature Charts #2184-2958
TAF or METAR lists #6020-6277
Significant weather text files #6650-6807
U.S. Radar Summary Chart #2080
U.S. Weather Depiction Chart #2020
8. If you receive the Radar Summary Chart (chart #2080), is it being used in conjunction with live radar
imagery or other sources of convective information during the weather brief?
___Yes
___ No
___ Product not used.
Flight Folder Services
9. Is your operation aware of the Flight Folder’s automated fax back request line? This allows you to
request products through a phone menu system, simply by entering the document number. The system
will then automatically fax them to you. ___Yes ___ No
10. Has your operation used the automated fax back request line before? ___Yes ___ No
11. Please add any other comments or suggestions.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________

Your name and title are requested, but are not necessary for your comments and responses to be
considered. However, please do include Company and Airport.
Survey completed by:_________________________________ Title ______________________
Company______________________________ ___________Airport_____________________
Please fill out and return via email to bradley.fritzler@noaa.gov or fax to (816) 880-0115 or 0139. If you
have questions, please call (816) 584-7240.
Paperwork Reduction Act Information: In accordance with Executive Order 12862, the National Performance
Review, and good management practices, NOAA offices seek to determine whether their customers are satisfied
with the services and/or products they are receiving and whether they have suggestions as to how the
services/products may be improved or made more useful. The information will be used to improve NOAA’s
products and services. Responses to this survey are completely voluntary. No confidentiality can be provided for
responses, but you need not supply your name or address. Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 5 minutes per response. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or
any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Sarah Brabson,
CIO-PPA1, Station 9826, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
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to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB Control Number.