Getting most of the NOTAMs is easy. Getting the rest isn’t. The problem is that there’s a tiny, but non-zero, chance that what you don’t know can, in fact, hurt you.
Getting All the NOTAMs
A few years ago, I managed to shoot an approach to minimums and not even know it. I was hauling cargo from Memphis to St. Louis Downtown. The forecasts at St. Louis werent all that bad, maybe 1000 overcast and three miles visibility. When I picked up ATIS, it had worsened to 400 and a mile. Eh, no sweat for a freight dog. I shot the ILS and landed uneventfully.
