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Old 9th June 2010 | 16:16
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silverstrata
 
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merlin:
Tis the point of having a provider of a service, that they filter and prioritise all notams etc for your planned route, POD, POD Alts, Enroute, enroute alts, POA & alts etc., and dump the rest. If they don't
I have never seen a handling agent anywhere in Europe who provides a route map with the locations of the relevant Notams marked on that map. Name one that does. I often get route Notams nowadays, which is better than nothing, but some still provide a dump of European Notams.

But the individual airfield Notams will still have the really important entry right at the bottom somewhere - after all the telephone number changes and firework displays.

And it is still typed out using the WWII Enigma cypher machine, just to make sure you cannot read it. I have seen some of our Eastern European colleagues look at these hieroglyphics and just shrug their shoulders. They should get the ghost of Alan Turing to decipher it all for us.


User friendly, they are not.


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