Mike Cross says " I doubt you'll find a single pilot who would fly without a proper briefing." I hate to disagree here but that simply is not true. I have come across too many who are happy to do just that. I'm the first to admit that changes need to be made to the current NOTAM system but there will always be those pilots who don't bother to read NOTAMs regardless of the information and how it is made available to them. A truly responsible pilot will make the effort to obtain the NOTAMs even in the current situation. I was horrified on my way into North Weald for the Aerofair in May to hear the number of pilots who plainly had not read the associated AIC. The controller was very patient with them.
Rustle seems to think that a one foot difference in the elevation at EGHH doesn't matter because it's only Cat 1 ILS. Are we now going to expect AIS to filter out this sort of information depending on the category of precision approaches at these airports?
This is taking things to the extreme. Personally I would rather see too much information (even if it is a bit annoying to go through) than not enough. I have experienced two notable omissions in the NOTAMs recently and that's far more worrying.
There is no doubt that the system needs to be improved particularly, as it has been less than reliable, but people have to be realistic and reasonable. On the subject of controllers' attitudes I have cringed at some of the things I've heard over the R/T which the controllers have had to deal with and it's no wonder some of them get annoyed. We're talking about NOTAMs (which have been difficult to obtain etc and I'm grateful to all those trying to sort out the problems) but this whole subject is more complex than just the NOTAM difficulties.