Definition
An FAA publication issued every four weeks that consolidates current Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) considered essential to flight safety, along with other notices of long duration that have not yet been published on aeronautical charts. It contains two sections: domestic notices and international notices, plus graphic notices and special notices.
Plain English
A regularly updated FAA booklet that gathers together the longer-lasting safety notices pilots need to know about — things like changes to airports, airspace, or procedures that haven't made it onto printed charts yet.
Context Anchor
Seen in instrument flight planning when checking FAA sources for current notices, restrictions, procedure changes, and other information that may affect a planned route.
Derivation
"Notice to Airmen" is the original term for an official advisory issued to pilots about changes affecting flight operations. The word "publication" simply marks this as the printed/published collection of those notices, rather than a single notice.
Why Pilots Care
Allows pilots to review all relevant aeronautical information that could affect flight safety even when it is not urgent enough for immediate NOTAM broadcast.
Intuition Check
Do not read “notice” here as a casual announcement. In this context, it means an official FAA message that may affect how a flight is planned or conducted.
Example Sentence 1
During flight planning, she reviewed the current NTAP to check for any long-standing notices affecting her destination airport.
Example Sentence 2
NTAP entries are reviewed when preparing for longer cross-country flights to catch non-urgent changes.