International Flight Planning FIR NOTAMS

nyk

nyk

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Do you read the FIR notams for all flights on your desk? This question might seem outrages to some but just wanting to know how everyone operates, per company or not. I know at my last shop (regional, mostly domestic) we didn't read them at all.
 
Short answer: Yes

It's a lot to read line by line but if you've been reading those notams on consecutive days you still scan through to see what has changed.
 
Depends on the FIR for me.I read and check all NOTAMS but there are a few I have learned to keep a special eye on. KZLA military, PAZA, KZOA, KZNY for deep water route closures...etc to name a few. Anything eastern Europe/Russia non-cfmu airspace or with a track structure. CZUL to see if baggotville is hot..etc. After many years, you learn the notorious ones to be very watchful of. Others you just get a bunch of useless information overload.
 
nyk said:
Do you read the FIR notams for all flights on your desk? This question might seem outrages to some but just wanting to know how everyone operates, per company or not. I know at my last shop (regional, mostly domestic) we didn't read them at all.
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My current shop requires dispatchers to read all the applicable FIR notams for a flight. Normally it is not a huge issue until you come to India. We have had issues where a flight was routed on an airway in China, and that airway closed after departure.
The only issue we have currently is our pilots do not receive FIR NOTAMs in their weather packages.
 
Ah, FIR NOTAMS, my old friend. How I don't miss having to muddle through the 15 pages of Fukuoka FIR NOTAMS every evening. ><
 
Oh crap! My PTSD from dealing with Brazil caused me to forget that one! Yeah, that's a lot of fun. Especially when you have conflicting FIRs and Brazil gives you absolutely NO help in trying to figure out how to escape. I seem to recall all sorts of daffy altitudes across the Amazon too. Westbound at FL350! Sabre would routinely soil itself.
 
pljenkins said:
Oh crap! My PTSD from dealing with Brazil caused me to forget that one! Yeah, that's a lot of fun. Especially when you have conflicting FIRs and Brazil gives you absolutely NO help in trying to figure out how to escape. I seem to recall all sorts of daffy altitudes across the Amazon too. Westbound at FL350! Sabre would routinely soil itself.
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How many times did you and I routinely crash Sabre?
 
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