Originally Posted by IO540
I think the situation is crap too but I have no idea what can be easily done to improve matters.
How about toughening up the biennial review, to check competence in preflight planning?
As others have said, even if you do conscientiously get NOTAMS before each flight, interpreting them would be a lot less error prone if there was an option to present information graphically. A crude (NATS only) solution could be for NOTAMS to include a special file name entry which the software on the web server could convert to a clickable link, and allow each NOTAM submitter to upload the corresponding image file.