Newps wrote:

Chip Jones wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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What is a "Flight Service Controller"?
-Robert, CFI




But every one of these guys knew this was coming. Twenty years ago
everybody going into FSS was told that it was forseeable that technology
would eliminate their jobs. Personally I think the new FSS will be many
orders of magnitude better than what we have now.

It certainly has the potential of being better.

The old rumor around the flight line was that many FSS specialists were controller
initial-hire trainees who couldn't complete the course at OKC or perhaps at their
first ATC facility.