Check NOTAMs

摘要

Contributing Editor Fred Simonds sent me a brief "There I Was" story that he published elsewhere. Not being one to let a good idea slip by without exploiting it, I've borrowed the topic and moral for these remarks. Here's my "True Confessions" story. Nobody checks NOTAMs for their home 'drome, right? After all, we're based there and know what's happening—especially if we're on a short trip where we just left the day before. Further inducing me to skip over my home NOTAMs, our airport had a runway and associated taxiways out of service for quite an extended time with no end in sight, so wading through all that to find something useful that ususally wasn't there simply wasn't worth the effort.