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"Well, on the Brasilia..."
At the time, no ordering or processing at all was done on destination station NOTAMs at Mormon West, leaving it as an Easter egg hunt for the crew. I don’t think that had changed as of the date of my resignation and it certainly had not changed on the paper flight releases (which I obstinately used as unlike the Surface paper cannot crash) though it’s possible that the dispatch software threw runways and the like up front, or provided some sort of interface that would require that at least the performance bits get run for a runway that was open.“Hey, you seem to have a lot on your plate there tonight…….lemme just pile some more on for you, don’t want you to feel cheated or anything”. One of those flights…..
Yes, all NOTAMS need to be included, I get that. And they are posted first come, first serve. But there has to be a way to sort maybe NAVAID and approach ones first, or SID/STAR changes, etc, and prioritize them down from there. Sure, guys like me care about unlit towers (nothing like having one loom out of the darkness in the middle of nowhere and fly past you that you never saw, nor any supporting guy wires), but I don’t mind if those NOTAMS get sorted last behind everything else, just so long as I know where to look for them. In that vein, I face the same issue you do…..pertinent NOTAMs and them being all over the place. Same when I go fly the 737, my NOTAM priorities then change to what yours are.
Current employer at least puts **RWY** or **NAV** or something like that (amazing how you can read right through something you look at a lot) in front of, well, runway or navigation ones.
