Narrative:

I am writing with a question regarding the NOTAMS for sea airport. There are four NOTAMS with airspeed changes for the stars into sea. On the STAR plates; the airspeeds at some intersections are listed at 280 KTS; but buried in the sea NOTAMS; there are speed limit changes indicating 250 KTS at the same intersections. These NOTAMS have been listed for many months; and I am wondering when the STAR charts are going to be updated with the correct airspeed limits. Sooner or later someone is going to miss the airspeed limits in the NOTAMS and be busted for going too fast over the intersections. I would like to request that the aero chart providers please look into correcting the STAR plates for sea and have the correct airspeed limits be printed on the stars. NOTAMS were originally meant for temporary changes; but these above mentioned speed limit changes have been listed in the NOTAMS for many months; if not years.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B757 First Officer expressed discontent with the failure of chart providers to update long time NOTAM'ed airspeed restrictions on four SEA STAR charts.

Narrative: I am writing with a question regarding the NOTAMS for SEA airport. There are four NOTAMS with airspeed changes for the STARS into SEA. On the STAR plates; the airspeeds at some intersections are listed at 280 KTS; but buried in the SEA NOTAMS; there are speed limit changes indicating 250 KTS at the same intersections. These NOTAMS have been listed for many months; and I am wondering when the STAR charts are going to be updated with the correct airspeed limits. Sooner or later someone is going to miss the airspeed limits in the NOTAMS and be busted for going too fast over the intersections. I would like to request that the aero chart providers please look into correcting the STAR plates for SEA and have the correct airspeed limits be printed on the STARS. NOTAMS were originally meant for temporary changes; but these above mentioned speed limit changes have been listed in the NOTAMS for many months; if not years.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.