Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness; Troubleshooting; Communication Breakdown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Equipment Issue; Ground Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence; No Specific Anomaly Occurred Unwanted Situation
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Weather; Airport
There are currently no NOTAMs published for N40.Upon landing I see that the runway is not plowed full width; and there are large snow piles on either side of the runway that could result in an impact with low wing aircraft. The taxi way snow piles are high enough that low wing aircraft will strike their wing on them.Also the AWOS-3 has been INOP for at least a year and I've never seen a NOTAM.Someone could easily strike a wing or flap on the snow piles during takeoff or landing and end up in an accident. The problem is caused by the airport management's ongoing failure to publish NOTAMs. N40 has forty (40) separate owners. which may lead to a 'if everyone is in charge; no one is in charge' situation. To prevent this in the future someone needs to tell N40 airport management to keep their NOTAMs up to date. If there are no plans to fix the AWOS then it needs to be removed from the chart.
Pilot reported concerns with the lack of NOTAM publications at N40 airport for known issues. Pilot stated the AWOS-3 has been inoperable for at least a year and has never been NOTAMed.