Mike Cross,
We fly up to 12 different sectors a day, sometimes more, not often on repetitive tracks. We often need to read the whole NOTAM brief for the UK. In an attempt to help us cut down wasted time, I requested about 9 months ago that airfields / ATZs included in NOTAM are actually named in para (e) rather than just indicated by their ICAO code letters in para (a). If they are not named, it means looking up what the airfield is. After over 30 years of flying, I still haven't memorised the minor ones.
I was told that this would be "trialled" at the end of last year. It wasn't satisfactorily explained why it was difficult to implement, but the trial never seemed to happen in any event.
Please can this be done?
In the post above, the quoted NOTAM shows EGKB in para (a) and "Biggin Hill" in para (e) - so it CAN be done. I did know where EGKB is though!
