Aircraft Family Filters in Notamify Alerts

Notamify Alerts now support aircraft applicability inside affected-element alert rules.

That means an alert can target NOTAMs that apply to an aircraft family such as A320, a readable catalog family such as Cessna Citation, or exact ICAO aircraft designators such as C172. The selector uses the Notamify aircraft catalog, so operators do not need to remember or manually maintain every designator in a family.

Family or exact designator

The new Aircraft Designator scope lives inside the Applies to section of an affected-element rule. You can select a family or individual designators from the same dropdown.

If a family is selected, designators inside that family are blocked. This keeps the rule unambiguous: selecting the A320 family means the family is the scope, not a duplicated list of A318, A319, A320, and A321 values.

Independent designators can still be selected alongside a family when needed. For example, a rule can target the A320 family and C172 as separate applicability scopes.

Saved as an aircraft family filter

The important part is persistence. A selected family is saved as the aircraft family filter, not expanded into every designator from the catalog. When the alert is loaded again, the preview still shows the family that was selected.

This matters for teams maintaining alert rules over time. If an alert was created for an aircraft family, the saved configuration should still read as that family in the UI and in the human preview.

Where it helps

Aircraft applicability is useful when a NOTAM affects only part of an operation. A closure, runway restriction, fuel-service issue, procedure limitation, or airport operating condition may apply only to specific aircraft types. Alerts can now combine the normal affected-element logic with aircraft scope:

1. Choose the operational condition, such as closed or unserviceable.
2. Choose the affected element, such as aerodrome, runway, taxiway, service, or procedure.
3. Add Aircraft Designator scope from the Applies to section.
4. Save the rule with family selections preserved as aircraft family filters.

For an OCC or dispatch team, the result is a clearer alert rule: fewer keyword assumptions, fewer manually maintained aircraft lists, and a preview that says exactly which aircraft scope is being monitored.

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