With respect alpha, we don’t know who made what error/s. The NOTAM originator said she ticked the ‘Eastern Standard time’ box on the form. Either the originator is making that up, or she isn’t. Either the box exists on the form, or it does not.
It seems to me that there are only two alternatives: The NOTAM office stuffed up by not converting the times from Eastern Standard time to UTC in accordance with the form submitted by the originator, and then the originator stuffed up by not confirming the accuracy of the times in the promulgated NOTAM. Or, the originator stuffed up by submitting a form that did not present the time information accurately then stuffed up again by not confirming the accuracy of the times in the published NOTAM.
Key point: Either way, Air Services has a statutory obligation to find out WTF happened, and why, resulting in misleading runway closure times in a NOTAM published by Air Services. That’s the point of CASR 175.175.
If it turns out the NOTAM originator is incompetent, the organisation which appointed the NOTAM originator has a regulatory problem which should be of concern to Air Services and CASA. It could also be that the Air Services NOTAM office isn’t interpreting submitted forms properly, which would also be something that should be of concern to Air Service and CASA.
All these rules are, after all, supposed to be about safety.
Last edited by Clinton McKenzie; 9th Apr 2023 at 10:26.