As a matter of interest, is there any website where one can enter a list of waypoints (e.g. EGXX LYD CPT DVR MAY ACORN ALKIN EGXX - sorry I know this route doesn't actually make sense!) plus planned altitudes and get a list of NOTAMs affecting the route, say 10nm either side of it and being effective at the planned altitude?
The software would be relatively non-trivial but this kind of system is badly needed. It would be an easy automatic check to do before a flight. Practically every flying school has a PC and many would subscribe to it. Most regular pilots also use a PC for flight planning.
The printed NOTAMs I have seen are very hard to use. The nearest I have seen is a commercial (pay) website on which you can do this sort of thing, one leg at a time. It still turns up lots of crap like a 200ft crane on the ground somewhere - who's going to fly down there? So the NOTAM list is very long; I once tried to do it for a trip to France and got about 100 pages of them.
No wonder most pilots don't check NOTAMs.