Used to have similar FSS stations at many airports here in the US. I
remeber one day approaching an airport from a ways out and having the
FSS give me a blow-by-blow (excuse the pun) account as a thunderstorm
approached the airport from the other direction. Not a controller, but
very helpful. I lost the race and landed elsewhere.
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Gene Seibel
Tales of Flight - http://pad39a.com/gene/tales.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.