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Old 29th Mar 2019, 21:36
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I'd prefer more plain English and less encoding. In this day and age of high speed communications, saving a few characters here and there is not worth the possibility of misinterpreting the NOTAM. Yes, I know it's a badge of honor and very manly to be able to decode this crap...but in the 21st century it's just dumb.

Also, pointer NOTAMs are stupid, dangerous and a huge pain in the you know what. Again, if the machines can figure out where to put the pointer NOTAMs they can copy and paste the original just as easily.

Finally, I'd like to see NOTAMs that have locations or regions on them be easily view-able that way on a chart. No reason Foreflight et al couldn't do that for us. It's all well and good to see a Lat/Lon or other position reference in the NOTAM, but it would be instantly clearer if, say, that crane or other obstruction became a dot on the chart.
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