I believe there were faxback numbers. You had to have a fax machine with a handset on it; you dialed the number and when you got the fax tone you put the handset down and the fax came through.
You got area briefings that way, and some schools pinned them to a noticeboard.
Obviously no route briefing was possible.
But there was also much less stuff in the notams back in those days. Today, every damn kite is notamed
Start : 2012-07-16T04:04:00 End : 2012-10-16T17:04:00 Schedule : HJ Lower : 0 Upper : 8 Location : Uckfield(50.967,0.083) - Radius 1nm Code : QWCLW Traffic : IV E) KITE FLYING 1NM RADIUS 5058N 00005E (UCKFIELD). CTC FOR FLYING TIMES, TEL 07752 634574. 12-04-0089/AS 5.
Realistically, what you did was ignore everything except TRAs.
The other thing is that somebody navigation using DR, and who doesn't know the area, is likely to be working hard enough and is not likely to be avoiding PJ zones. With GPS, avoiding multiple notamed spots is easy.
Last edited by peterh337; 3rd Sep 2012 at 11:17.