Well Chevvron I won't say anything apart from - if you're going to trumpet the greatness of all things CAA you should read GASIL, it is after all available from the CAA website - although finding it can be a pest.
Mixed up - Do pilots use the internet? Well a huge number do not. Look at recent threads here and on the Flyer site regarding the Notam rubbish. Try and find anything specific on the CAA or NATS sites and your best bet is to try and Google it.
Out of a small circle of friends who fly I'm probably the only one who routinely checks the Notams, the other guys have largely given up - unless they are flying 'down South' and then they try. Why? Because compared with almost any other topic getting the information requires either persistence, expertise, memorising the user manual or printing treefuls of paper.
Today that is an unacceptable approach - if your bank, or any other body did that you would vote with your feet, wit these bodies however we are talking about people who are utterly resistant to the ideas of CRM or even accoutability. The CAA are very good at the 'stick approach'. Run out of fuel and we'll prosecute, (so we all plan to actually run out of fuel when we go flying?). Fly low and we'll prosecute, Bust a TRA and we'll....
One of the threads I've been reading says something like" we'll remove all the spedd limit signs and put the data in an internet site which drivers will have to search before going anywhere". Very largely this is what is happening largely because of the resistance to change and lack of understanding of people in these bodies.
In the 'good old days' Notams consisted of important information and the whole of the UK could be printed on a few pages. Now everyone and his dog is raising Notams, most of which are pretty useless - example operation Neptune Warrior - about 7 pages of we are operating everywhere not obeying the rules of the air - look out. And what use is any of this? The outline area (thankyou Notamplot) covers the entire northern half of the British Isles!!!!!
So characters on these fora do use the internet, however many do not and have been alienated by the pathetically poor sites that the official bodies have created.
Will it ever improve? I certainly hope so because at the moment the situation is building towards bad things happening.