Sorry - I wasn't very clear. We
could access them, but couldn't get any sort of route filtering to work and in the end we had to wade through 36 pages of randomly-ordered London-FIR NOTAMs in the pre-flight and just hope we didn't miss anything. I spent most of my flight-planning hour fighting that damn thing..
... but I passed
I beat the examiner 2-1 on useful NOTAMs - we both spotted one about Portsmouth, but I also managed to find out that Farnborough was SSR-only yesterday (hidden on page 7 of a EGHR -> EGTB route after all sorts of crap about Welsh NDBs and North Sea oilrigs).
I wouldn't mind this damn system so much if it could at least put the useful ones first. If we must have a complete area briefing, why can they not do something like putting the NOTAMs in order of distance from a named aerodrome? Too simple, I guess....