GA1341

The NOTAM Info web site at [website] has had a serious fault since late December 2022. Attempts to report this to the site owner have gone unanswered. The site shows no warning about the fault and appears to work correctly.  Pilots who habitually use the site may rely on it as their sole or main source of NOTAM information and may consequently be unaware of important NOTAMs resulting in entry to temporarily restricted airspace or even a collision. The nature of the error is that the software is designed to retrieve all the NOTAMs for the next 7 days. However, from 29th December 2022 onwards, NOTAMs are only retrieved for the next hour. It wasn’t until mid-January that I first realised that I wasn’t seeing all the NOTAMs relevant to my planned flights. I reported the problem using the CONTACT form on the web site. I have had no response so far and the error persists. I have alerted other pilots to the problem and now use the AIS web site to retrieve NOTAMs. [Note, the website has subsequently been corrected which is why we don’t mention its name]. I admit to taking the short cut of using a non-approved source to get my pre-flight NOTAM briefing. I mitigated that by calling the free AIS Information Line number 08085 354802 which is what made me realise that I wasn’t seeing all the relevant NOTAMs.