Numbskull Notams
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Here is another gripe.
several decades ago, as a PPL, I suggested to both the NATS and the CAA that the Notams they issued were useless - unusable. Why? Because the wad of Notams (50 pages) we had would actually take 4 hours to decipher, so everyone ignored them.
The main gripe was that there was no map, detailing where each Notam was, so you could skip to the ones that were off your route. The second gripe was that new danger areas and purple routes comprised a huge list of coordinates, which would take another 4 hours to decipher. Why no simple map, with the areas deliniated? Why allow hundreds of individual pilots to plot incorrect points, instead of presenting a simple map?
Moving on several decades, as a commander of a shiny (if rather old) jet, I still have the same problem. Only the other week, I was presented with 50 pages of Notams. XXX airport had 3 pages alone, and after noting cranes, fireworks, birds and several new telephone numbers - there, right at the bottom, we find that the ILS is u/s. What the !@!*!*! Then, there was a NATO execise or similar, with 22 coordinates, plus some ash clouds with another 38 coordinates. Luckily with the latter, opps had pulled a map off the web somewhere.
Why are NATS so behind the drag curve? Why are they not able to implement a good suggestion, after 3 decades?
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