Briefing Dilemma

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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Is there a way to escape this? What I really needed was "VFR projected
over that area all day long, No TFR's or Notams, surface winds out of the
NE 10 knots. Have a nice day."

As Steven wrote, ask for an "area briefing". They'll want your point of
departure and radius for the briefing.

IMHO, you are wrong to say that you "don't really need winds aloft". Just
because you are aren't going on a cross-country, that doesn't mean that
information isn't useful. Even in the absence of airmets about wind shear
or turbulence, winds aloft will inform you about possibilities of both, and
they also provide information about movement of air masses, allowing you to
do a reality check on the forecast. You also get temperature information
with the winds aloft.

If you want someone to just tell you "VFR all day long, winds out of the
NE", tune in to the Weather Channel. There's a reason that aviation
briefings contain more detail than that. Ignore that detail at your own
peril. Ninety nine flights out of a hundred, it probably won't matter. But
that hundredth flight will be a real doozy.

Pete