Well put FFF.I regularly help friends off on flying weekends and unable to access the web on their travels.Last year I did a narrow route search for a former colleague who was going to the Isle of Man.I just happened to know the Red Arrows were performing there.Narrow route brief just didn,t bring it up despite repeated attempts to provoke it into doing so and I am very practised at using it and the systems foibles.I am amazed the CAA manage to get any prosecutions with the present system I know how I would conduct a defence to any infringement!!.The current notam system is not up to the job,it is the product of an attempt to economise on the cost of running a notam system .The result is a very flawed system that has not properly replaced the system that went before it.