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Old 17th October 2005 | 09:46
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Joe le Taxi
 
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EMB 170 - Even if they had published a notam to that effect, you would have done well to spot it. Delhi's notams really are ridiculous with pages and pages about some trivial amendment to a SID (which is already incorporated on the plates) and important one liners are hidden amongst them. The natural temptation is to just skim through the lot, but knowing that anything can and does happen at this place, I have to spend many extra minutes reading this endless verbiage, when I could be looking after other important tasks.

But even when you've waded your way through this lot, they'll announce that they're going to do something in the next few minutes thats not on your notams anyway, like oh, er something trifling like shut the runway for works. You point out that that's not on the notams and they reply that they've just produced a new notam to that effect.

You can't win!
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