FAA NAS Architecture Website

[gumboot]

Hi everyone,

I have a question about a particular website:

http://nas-architecture.faa.gov/

This website contains information on the Federal Aviation Administration's National Airspace System - radar sites, ATC centers, and so forth.

I had been using this site earlier this year for some useful information, however now I find I am consistently incapable of accessing it.

I live in New Zealand and my ISP is WorldxChange:

http://www.wxc.co.nz/

I've asked the FAA but have no received a reply. Because I have no issues accessing other FAA sites (and other US sites full stop) I am doubtful that it is anything to do with my ISP.

Google has the site cached and it comes up fine if I do a search, but if I try to actually connect it times out every single time.

Theories include:

-The site is no longer there
-The site is experiencing long-term technical issues
-Access to the site has been restricted in some way

I was wondering if anyone could offer any ideas (perhaps some pilots hanging out around here?). If nothing else I suppose people could confirm if they are able to access the site themselves or not.

 

[uk_dave]

Well, your link works for me via a UK ISP.... but maybe your problem is one of timing?....

The NAS Architecture website will be unavailable during the fixed maintenance windows
from 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EST on the 1st Friday following the 2nd Tuesday and the last Friday of each month.

 

[six7s]

I'm in NZ too and the site does load for me, in Netscape9, IE6, Firefox3 and Opera9.5 on Windoze...

However, the site is not without it's problems:

http://www.faa.gov/Accessibility/index.htm

Page Not Found

The page you requested cannot be found.

ID: 2024378.

http://network-tools.com » nas-architecture.faa.gov

204.108.7.26 is from United States(US) in region North America

TraceRoute to 204.108.7.26 [nas-architecture.faa.gov]
Hop	(ms)	(ms)	(ms)		IP Address	Host name
1	11	5	5		72.249.0.65	-
2	7	6	7		8.9.232.73	ge-6-18.car1.dallas1.level3.net
3	15	10	7		4.68.19.204	ae-4-99.edge2.dallas3.level3.net
4	7	6	8		4.68.110.214	sprint-level3-te.dallas3.level3.net
5	7	15	16		144.232.20.82	sl-crs2-fw-0-15-3-0.sprintlink.net
6	45	45	47		144.232.19.103	sl-crs2-dc-0-8-5-0.sprintlink.net
7	49	47	46		144.232.15.18	sl-bb21-dc-4-0-0.sprintlink.net
8	45	45	52		144.232.15.9	sl-gw21-dc-15-0.sprintlink.net
9	Timed out	Timed out	Timed out			-
10	Timed out	Timed out	Timed out			-
11	Timed out	Timed out	Timed out			-
12	Timed out	Timed out	Timed out			-

Trace aborted.

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