NOTAM - website quality reversion
I confess that I've not been checking NOTAMs quite as religiously as I should over the last few months since I've mostly been flying right seat with other qualified pilots or in my own backyard. But today, I've a meeting near White Waltham and rather than brave the M25 I've decided to fly up from Popham.
So, I am a good pilot go to the AIS website, and request a route brief from Popham to WW, and to be on the safe side I enter a 35nm radius since there isn't an obvious straight line route.
What I get seems straight back to the bad old days. Pages upon pages of NOTAMS, completely unordered, many of which have absolutely no relevance to my route.
For example, near the end of the list I have NOTAMs (in order) for Carlisle, St Athan and Coventry. Now I'm not a regular computer programmer, but even I wouldn't struggle to write a program capable of showing that none of these are within a 35nm radius of a straight track from Popham to White Waltham. That order scarcely lends itself to easy checking to my route either in the way that latitude order used to.
I thought from posts here and in the GA press that this was all sorted. Has anybody out there got a clue what is going on, and when it's going to be sorted out?
P