Larry Dighera wrote:


Of course, FARs* require pilots to obtain _ALL_ available information
before flight. Given today's pop-up Temporary Flight Restrictions, it
is even more important to check NOTAMs during the preflight briefing.
The FSS briefer or DUATS should have issued the NOTAM related to the
parachute activity. And if ATC is providing Radar Advisory Service,
the controller providing traffic advisories would have warned of the
hot drop zone.

If this is a regularly active drop zone, it gets published in the A/FD
and perhaps a parachute symbol on the chart, and there no longer is any
NOTAM for the briefer to report. They expect you to check the chart
and A/FD as part of your preflight planning.

ATC, workload permitting, is always a good thing to try, but not
foolproof.