In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
You know, ever since I've gotten my license, I've found Canadian Flight
Service *way* more helpful than Buffalo AFSS. At the time, I thought
maybe it was innate difference between US and Canada - but as I travelled
more I found that other US AFSSes were also friendly and helpful. I think
it's just Buffalo that sucks. And it's not even all of the briefers at
Buffalo - just some of them.

Well, I think Buffalo FSS is slated for closure, so I suppose the
briefers there are just marking time till retirement. We refer to it
as having "lost that loving feeling" when one of our employees starts
to act that way...

Except they've sucked for 13 years now. I don't think it has anything to
do with marking time.

As a student pilot, I remember that if there was a scattered layer below
5,000 feet, at least one briefer there was sure to say "VFR Not
Recommended", so you'd hang up and call back to get another briefer.
Everybody in the Rochester student/cfi community knew about "VFR Not
Recommended guy".

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