Hi Flower
"Notams are not just available from the web"
I fly out of EGHP so where do the NOTAM come from?
I can ring NOF and get them from the duty officer but how many enquiries can he deal with at once?
I could ring an ATSU and ask them - your attitude suggests you wouldn't take very kindly to such a request.
Please enlighten us.
The simple fact is that I, the aerodrome operator, and all the pilots flying from EGHP have a choice of the web or the web. NOF do not have any backup system such as fax.
A MOR highlights the problem but doesn't fix it. We can MOR 'till we're blue in the face but nothing will get any better until someone takes a constructive attitude in recognising that there is a problem.
I and others have MOR'd on non-availability of NOTAM, SDD are investigating and DAP are on to AIS, which is of course part of NATS.
We as a community are telling you there is a problem. Part of it is the volume of irrelevant data and I'm asking you to recognise that.
Your problem of poorly briefed pilots requesting LARS is a symptom of the underlying issue. I doubt you'll find a single pilot who would willingly fly without a proper brief, however you will find plenty who complain vociferously about the quality of the information available to them.
What they have is not up to scratch, does not comply with your own operating procedures in MATS and is worse than what was in place before the upgrade.
That's the real problem, and until that improves you will continue to get badly briefed pilots.
Mike