Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Total 20000
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Airport; Procedure
After landing and parking at GAL; I called the FSS to report;  'RWY 07 3 inch depression at 4100 ft on centerline; and 4 inch depression at 4400 ft on centerline'.  The next day I checked the NOTAMs for GAL. The information from my PIREP was not observed in the NOTAM group. However; the information was observed in the PIREPs.The information I reported represents the potential for damage to an aircraft. Unlike the PIREP which will; after 24 hours; vaporize into cyberspace; the depressions in the runway will persist for an unknown duration. I would not be reporting this event were it not for other similar events in Alaska. For example; I have PIREPed ice covered runways; the ice persisted for days because it was an unattended airport; but the PIREP expired after 24 hours. I have presented only a small sample of the situations I have observed in over a decade in this region. It is my opinion that procedures for processing PIREP information need to be reviewed. Methods for screening and filtering runway condition information should be revised to preserve runway condition reports for permanent and semi-permanent conditions.
Cargo pilot noted depressions in the runway at GAL on the centerline and called in a report to the FSS. He notes the next day that his report is listed under PIREPs which will expire in 24 hours and not in the general NOTAMs. He believes that procedures for processing PIREP information should be reviewed to preserve runway condition reports of permanent and semi-permanent conditions.