Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:02 pm
#1698266
Serious question. Who polices what people put into NOTAMs?
I'm sure we've all seen examples of the following:
Airfield A with parachuting NOTAMed H24 to FL195. Really? I don't think so...
Or airfield B with aerobatics allegedly being performed in the overhead all day, every day from March to October. Blimey.
Or model aircraft flying all day, every day from a field I see most days, and which is deserted for >95% of the time.
Somebody must surely be responsible for asking the question, is that NOTAM really necessary or truly accurate? And the flipside is, is it fair to ask a pilot to take seriously the NOTAM system when it contains such notifications that are just not true. Granted, such crassly scatter-gun notifications might have been necessary in the days of yore, when NOTAMs were delivered by runners carrying messages in forked sticks, or poled onto wheezing fax machines (remember them?) . But these days? Really?
I'm sure we've all seen examples of the following:
Airfield A with parachuting NOTAMed H24 to FL195. Really? I don't think so...
Or airfield B with aerobatics allegedly being performed in the overhead all day, every day from March to October. Blimey.
Or model aircraft flying all day, every day from a field I see most days, and which is deserted for >95% of the time.
Somebody must surely be responsible for asking the question, is that NOTAM really necessary or truly accurate? And the flipside is, is it fair to ask a pilot to take seriously the NOTAM system when it contains such notifications that are just not true. Granted, such crassly scatter-gun notifications might have been necessary in the days of yore, when NOTAMs were delivered by runners carrying messages in forked sticks, or poled onto wheezing fax machines (remember them?) . But these days? Really?