Originally Posted by
VIRotate
I agree with you. Some guys make this job harder than it has to be. I’ve had a few conversations with my FOs about some of them. The only time I read notams is going into an unfamiliar airport, one without a tower, or during hard IMC when I have to do an actual approach. I don’t bother marking taxiways because I figure if it has a tower, they aren’t going to send me down a closed taxiway. If the FAA redid notams and made it easier to find pertinent information, I think more pilots would look at them. Anyways to each their own as long as you’re being safe.
lets hope we never fly together...not reading a closed taxiway NOTAM because there is a control tower is a false sense of security.
If you are coming into land and it’s snowing and you turn off the runway before tower gives you instructions and you turn off into a closed taxiway (just because a taxiway is closed doesn’t mean it will barricaded) you just made a violation. I have heard of people being violated for this. Just one example.
Your probably the kinda of person I hear on the radio ask for the ILS to a runway at the last minute and the control says “it’s NOTAMED out of service” then there’s an awkward silence.