To the Capt discharge : reading relevant NOTAMs today becomes a challenge , and mising something among the garbage is easy.
Yesterday I made a VFR flight plan from Germany to Holland and the automatic NOTAM briefing I received for that route was 9 pages long that included all the security advices for Khartoum, Damascus , Baghdad FIR plus the Yemeni airspace situation, plus TACAN bearings unlocks ( whatever that is) in various military airbases I was not even flying close to ,and dozens of Crane erections with their relevant GPS coordinates.
Is it the same in the USA ? NOTAM everything to cover yourself ?
On that issue it is difficult to understand an IFR flight being cleared by ATC to a closed airfield, or are ATC in the USA also not getting briefings on NOTAMS ?