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Air carrier first officer stated that NOTAM was poorly worded and required several hours of plotting to comply with; causing NOTAM to be violated.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1682982 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201909 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.ARTCC |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying Relief Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types |
Narrative:
I was in the crew rest at the time ATC notified the operating pilots about a violation of a NOTAM. This NOTAM applied to the way we were filed through to russian airspace. The operating pilots then pulled out the NOTAM paperwork and shifted through the 33 pages of NOTAM to find the appropriate one. When I came up to the flight deck to relieve one of the pilots; I was made aware of the violation. I looked through the NOTAM packet and found the NOTAM that was violated. During the preflight; we all looked through the flight packet to try and find all appropriate information for our route of flight. The way this NOTAM was written would make it very difficult to apply to our route of flight without several hours available before the flight to plot the positions that it was talking about since we did not have the fixes written in the NOTAM as filed points. After this incident; I will be looking more closely at all available paperwork. This NOTAM was able to be missed by at least the dispatcher; clearance delivery; four pilots; and center. A more clearly structured way to deliver NOTAM would be helpful in avoiding this in the future.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier First Officer stated that NOTAM was poorly worded and required several hours of plotting to comply with; causing NOTAM to be violated.
Narrative: I was in the crew rest at the time ATC notified the operating pilots about a violation of a NOTAM. This NOTAM applied to the way we were filed through to Russian airspace. The operating pilots then pulled out the NOTAM paperwork and shifted through the 33 pages of NOTAM to find the appropriate one. When I came up to the flight deck to relieve one of the pilots; I was made aware of the violation. I looked through the NOTAM packet and found the NOTAM that was violated. During the preflight; we all looked through the flight packet to try and find all appropriate information for our route of flight. The way this NOTAM was written would make it very difficult to apply to our route of flight without several hours available before the flight to plot the positions that it was talking about since we did not have the fixes written in the NOTAM as filed points. After this incident; I will be looking more closely at all available paperwork. This NOTAM was able to be missed by at least the Dispatcher; Clearance Delivery; four pilots; and Center. A more clearly structured way to deliver NOTAM would be helpful in avoiding this in the future.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.