Definition
An FAA publication issued every 28 days that contains current Notices to Airmen considered essential to flight safety, including changes to airports, navigation aids, airspace, instrument approach procedures, and special operating procedures, that have not yet been published in the regular charting and publication cycle.
Plain English
A regularly updated FAA booklet listing important temporary and recent changes to airports, airspace, and procedures that pilots need to know before flying.
Context Anchor
Seen in FAA handbook discussions of preflight planning and airport surface operations, including where standardized taxi route information may be published.
Derivation
"Notice to Airmen" is the long-standing term for an official advisory to pilots. The Publication is simply the bound, scheduled collection of these notices, gathered in one place rather than scattered across individual briefings.
Why Pilots Care
Pilots must check this publication before flight to learn about temporary runway closures, taxiway restrictions, or new obstacles that directly affect safe taxi and departure routing.
Intuition Check
Do not read “publication” as a casual newsletter or optional reading. In this context, it means an official FAA source of active flight information a pilot is expected to check.
Example Sentence 1
Before the cross-country flight, she reviewed the Notices to Airmen Publication for any changes affecting her destination airport.
Example Sentence 2
Before accepting the assigned standardized taxi route, the crew verified that nothing in the current Notices to Airmen Publication overrode the published instructions.