FDC NOTAMS are the vehicle to communicate changes to approach
procedures. If a pilot is unaware of an FDC NOTAM which applies to
his destination chart, he has not done adequate preflight.






On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:37:40 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

I'm just reading IFR Refresher, and it has a report on an accident that
happened after a King Air was cleared for an SDF approach at KSME.
According to the article, at the time the A/FD and NTAP listed the SDF as
"Out of Service (OTS) - Indefinitely", and had been for four years, but
the plate was still being published with no mention that the SDF was OTS.
Why the hell would they continue to publish an approach plate in a
situation like that?

There's probably less paperwork and red tape involved to just notam
something OTS than to get it revoked. "We don't have to make sense, we're
the FAA".