Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
Seriously, my comment wasn't meant like that. I was confused as to why one would need so many NOTAMs. I'll probably never convince you of that. But it's ok, life goes on.
KC - we've been on this board long enough and shared opinions that if you say that you didn't mean it that way then there is no reason for me NOT to believe you. Life goes on in either case.
But I do think, even in keeping back on thread topic, the government must become as lean and as efficient as the commercial side of aviation. To be blunt, it's the government side that's slowing everyone down.
like many coporations KC - I believe the FAA, and gov't in general, is fat - but it is like the USAF in my opinion - fat at the top. We have FAR to many *managers* while the grunts (that would be me even in my new life) still blast away on a daily basis and are eventually loaded down with more and more. When you see more of the process from the inside though - you also come to realize that it is FAr bigger than just the FAA slowing down things. When I see new procedures or redesigns of airspace (or let's use the new DME/DME SIDs and STARs out of KIAH as an example) it is amazing how many hands are involved in that process OUTSIDE of the FAA - just about every aviation alphabet soup I could think of!
There's no reason in the datalinked world that we live in the NOTAM system couldn't be automated and beamed directly into the cockpit/EFBs and towers.
The reason for this link KC....but it is wrong to think that it is always the big bad FAA who is slowing things down. there are people (and users like me!) inside the FAA who's job it is too push this and get it out yet they run into financial, technological and political roadblocks at every turn. Peronally I just help push/intitue a new way for my organziation to submit changes to the TPPs and AF/D that is much more efficient and actually gives the flight inspector some feedback that the change will be made/considered/or rejected; yet I seem to have stepped on somebody's toes in the process and gotten *out of my lane* along the way. Luckily in this example I had the *new* boss on my side and it is going to happen anyways. (YEAH - small victory!)
Another interesting observation. Whenever I fly overseas, we're always flying an NADP1 departure. But it's very rare in the USA. I'd imagine that if the noise sensitive communities in the USA found out that pilots weren't flying the most advantageous takeoffs from a noise perspective, they'd be angry. But we don't fly them because we're not required to. Which goes back to the theme, our government is slow to make the necessary changes
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I was amazed to find out how often it is the industry itself that resists some changes - most often due to MONEY! many of these new procedures we have been talking about are all about flow and maximizing flow/time/fuel/efficiency. If there is a great idea about something but it costs money - the airlines are the first to cry foul (think rest rules as an example).