The lack of graphical output from the AIS website is a problem, there is no doubt about it.
But, once you get used to it, it's difficult to find anything else which is better.
I tend to fly the same routes regularly, which makes things a little easier, because my Briefing Handbook contains saved queries for my regular routes. All I need to do to get Notams is amend the period of validity and review the query, then press Submit.
The output which comes back is not unduly long by any means. But every now and then, I come across a Notam which contains huge numbers of co-ordinates, which may affect my route. Or even a Notam with a single set of co-ordinates, but no place name or a name I'm not familiar with. I then have to get my chart out and plot these points on the chart - and that is far more time-consuming than getting and reading the Notams in the first place. A less diligent pilot might well decide it is not worth the effort......
The next best thing I've found is NotamPlot, which is a fantastic tool. My one big gripe about NotamPlot is the unplotted Notams. There is no way to filter out unwanted unplotted Notams. There are generally a very large number of these unplotted Notams, and most of them are IFR only. As a VFR pilot, if it were possible to filter the IFR Notams out of the unplotted list, this would probably make NotamPlot my favourite tool.
What would be nice is if the two could be combined in some way - so you get the query capabilities of the AIS website (not as user-friendly as it could be, but very flexible once you get used to it and returns a manageable number of Notams) combined with the graphical output of NotamPlot.
FFF
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