Brief all available information prior to a flight. Complacency and rushing can be deadly.
Good point. Interestingly, Syracuse, NY, airport changed their ATIS frequency the third week of March this year, or about a month ago. This rather important fact was and
still is NOTAM'ed while the charts play catch up (the approach plates still do not reflect this change a month later).
There isn't an hour that goes by where an IFR aircraft just handed off to SYR approach checks in with "negative ATIS" (meaning that they were unable to retrieve the ATIS on what is now the unused frequency). So far, SYR controllers have been very patiently responding with the fact that the ATIS changed frequencies and they even provide the new one with no mention of the NOTAM. What is this fact really implying? That the pilots do not have the current NOTAMs for the airport when they briefed the flight. If they don't have that one, what other information might they be missing?
Know who the biggest offenders of this have been? Airline pilots. Um, does anyone recall a particular and avoidable Comair off-the-end-of-the-runway crash several months ago that, in part, had at least one contributing factor pertaining to airport NOTAMs? Sheesh...