"EDR" wrote in message
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No, you don't get it.


No, it really is you that does not get it.



Weather observers were not just located at FSSs and airports. They were
also reported from other stations. For example, up until about five
years ago, there were a human observer reports from ECK. Is ECK an
airport? No. Is ECK a FSS? No. What is ECK? It's a VOR.


That seems unlikely. I can find no reference to ECK weather observations in
any place one would expect to find them. ECK has been a location for winds
and temperatures aloft forecasts for many years and remains so today.
You're no doubt confusing surface weather observations with winds aloft
forecasts.



You have to go
back and find a list of weather reporting stations from 20 years ago to
determine what other stations in the EVM area reported weather. Weather
reported from 100 miles or more distant from your destination is not
going to give you an accurate picture.


This is part of what you still don't get. The weather reporting stations
that were operating twenty years ago are operating today. There are MORE
weather observation stations today than there were then. One of them is at
EVM, Wellstone's destination. Having a weather observer at your destination
is better than not having a weather observer at your destination.

In any case, weather did not put Wellstone's plane on the ground, the pilot
did. He was initially too fast and then slowed too much. He stalled.
Pilot error.