I find the 'normal' briefing input pages so cumbersome I don't use them.
Why should I have to keep entering a briefing ID (a required field)?
Or a mandatory dept. & arr. aerodrome? I operate out of places that don't exist on their database.
There only seems to be a facility to search the database of locations/FIRs/navaids, and not browse. Bad luck if you have no idea of the exact code or place name (as held in the database). Even M$ Outlook Express lets you browse AND it will skip based on one or two entered characters.
No help to explain why it won't accept an entry or even a note to say what is acceptable in the form field.
Doesn't work with Opera - a fully standards compliant browser. How do I access the site from a PDA or smartphone that doesn't use M$? If they wrote the bloody site so it was standards compliant they'd improve accessability without increasing their workload. It would also future proof it somewhat. They've incompetently locked themselves into a corner.
As a result the route briefing 'feature' is unuseable to me. At least I can get the FIR briefs. Except they're only VFR...
Access to the Q line so 3rd party, properly written & more useable software can work.
No graphical selection. In the 21st century....
Why don't you suggest they buy Australia's system? It works a damn sight better.