Not really sure what you're saying Flick Roll.
The restricted areas are actually quite small, and in a very busy piece of airspace around Dublin/Weston/Baldonnel aerodromes.
Might also take into account other traffic, such as the many film crews who take to the skies for the event.
I'm not complaining about the restricted area itself, if that's what you think. I'm complaining about the way the notam is coded. It is done in such a way that these small areas are shown on a graphical system as covering the whole country. Someone decided that everyone flying in Ireland needs to know about a small restricted area in complicated airspace, even if their flight doesn't come within 100 miles of the TRA.
So instead of being able to use Drauks nice graphical system to tell me if I'm going anywhere near the TRA, I have to plot every little point. How many pilots will do that? Wouldn't it be much easier if they just did it the way it's supposed to be done. Put a point in the centre, and a range of 10nm (which would more than cover the TRA). That way if I was going near it, I'd get the notam, and if I wasn't I wouldn't get it.
Have a look at the one I posted for the Parachute jump.
It's located in a place in the very south west of Ireland. The text says it's confined to 3nm around that area. Why should every pilot making a flight in Ireland need to be briefed on it?
If the notams in the UK were done in the same way, a brief would but multiples of it's current size.
This is what I get for a TRA that is smaller than one of those stars, and a parachute jump covering a 3nm area in the south west
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