Medium Transport; High Wing; 2 Turboprop Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Other / Unknown
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Aircraft; Human Factors
Both FMS MEL'd. [We] did not see NOTAM for BOI VOR to be out of service at arrival time. [We] departed no FMS/GPS using VOR navigation only. Didn't realize BOI VOR was out of service until over BKE VOR. [We were] unable to have reliable communication with Dispatch. [We] continued to BOI knowing VFR weather and radar vectors.
With only 45 minutes; we were given an aircraft swap into an airplane that had both FMS's on MEL. I looked through the weather packet quickly so we could talk about the unusual flight and how we were going to fly the flight. When making the switch over from IMB to BOI; I noticed that BOI wasn't coming in. It was at that time I took another look at the NOTAMs and noticed that BOI was out of service. I called my Dispatcher who due to SATCOM problems asked me to call him when I got on the ground. It was VFR and we had BOI in sight so we continued to make a landing in BOI. Not thoroughly going over NOTAMs.
Air carrier flight crew reports being dispatched with both FMSs inoperative and discovering enroute that the VOR at their destination is also inoperative. Flight is able to continue in VMC with Radar vectors from ZLC.