FAA Pilot-Alert System Breakdown Followed Years of Warnings - WSJ

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D., Calif.), who has advocated for overhauling the FAA’s Notam system, said modernizing its content and technology go hand in hand. “The pilots, the users, tend to not rely on it as much because they don’t have confidence that the system—both the content and the architecture—is reliable,” he said in an interview. 

False, false, false.

Pilots cannot legally operate any flight without checking NOTAMs.

There’s a lot of useless info in there, yes. But a lot of vital information, too.