Hi CB
I've passed your stuff on to AIS for investigation.
The Iraq business is a long-standing pice of daftness. It's not the fault of AIS, they only have to publish the stuff. You could in theory file a FP to Iraq from anywhere in the UK FIR's so it will appear in all briefings.
Why they can't just instruct ATSU's that they are to reject any flightplan routing direct to Iraq I don't know.
It muddies the waters and helps to obscure what we really need to see. It's a political thing, and like most things of that ilk has very little logical thought behind it.
Here's a little more detail anyway to flesh out what Rustle has said above:-
Good News!
The UK AIS website at
http://www.ais.org.uk now contains GEOGRAPHICALLY SORTED notam.
There are two area briefs and two aerodrome briefs (one for each FIR). Each brief is generated "on demand" and so is 100% up to date.
The FIR briefs are in two sections, the first contains NOTAM with a radius of influence up to 30 nm geographically sorted from North to South. The second contains NOTAM with a wider radius of influence.
The Aerodrome briefs appear in alphabetic order of AERODROME NAME.
If you are an aerodrome operator or flying club these give you the ideal thing to put on your briefing board.
Please try these out as much as possible over the next few days. The software development engineers are there this week so if it can be broken we want to do it before they go back to France!
If you have any problems accessing
http://www.ais.org.uk you will also be able to get these briefs at
http://www.nats.co.uk/operational/pibs/index.shtml
However briefs from this site will only be updated twice a day and are intended only as a backup. The NATS site has not yet been updated with the new briefs but should be soon.
Addresses for comments:-
On the forums at
http://www.pprune.org/forums/forumdi...?s=&forumid=63
or
http://www.flyer.co.uk/forum2/list.php?f=1
If you want to comment to AIS or the CAA
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If you want have comments for one of us
Russell Howton
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Mike Cross
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Rod Bailes-Brown
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Mike