The issue Sunday was not that pilots did not follow the NOTAM. That was a symptom of the real problem.

There were too many airplanes trying to arrive in the same airspace.

It wasn’t possible for every pilot to follow the NOTAM as there simply wasn’t enough room in the sky. Even if planes had been kept far, far away and arrived at a pace at which the NOTAM could have been flown exactly, it's still likely it would have taken you three hours to fly from Appleton. (I fully recognize that an embarrassingly large number of pilots wouldn’t follow the NOTAM no matter the conditions- that's beyond frustrating to me. The guy who landed 36 Sunday afternoon while two streams of departures were leaving on 18 makes me want to go postal.)

At least you made it in after 3 hours. This guy flew over five hours after departing from Appleton, then returned, and flew another hour before finally arriving.

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