Twenty minutes in the queue awaiting the new and improved FSS

On 4/30/2007 11:08:44 PM, "Matt Barrow" wrote:

I have virtually ZERO confidence in weather forecasts. Anywhere.

I was discussing weather analyses, not weather forecasts.

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Peter

"Peter R." wrote in message
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On 4/30/2007 11:08:44 PM, "Matt Barrow" wrote:

I have virtually ZERO confidence in weather forecasts. Anywhere.

I was discussing weather analyses, not weather forecasts.

And your "local" boy provides what?, that the fer'einer couldn't?

On 4/30/2007 9:08:21 PM, Nathan Young wrote:

What were weather conditions when you called?

Directly overhead my airport was CAVU. To the east was a line of t-storms and
farther out to the west (Ohio, Indiana, Iowa) also t-storms.

With the closure of the Buffalo FSS last month I believe our calls initially
route to Cleveland with overflow going to Leesburg, Virginia. Apparently
overflows from there go west, as demonstrated by the fact I ultimately talked
to a Phoenix, Az, briefer.

--
Peter

On 5/1/2007 9:20:35 AM, "Matt Barrow" wrote:

And your "local" boy provides what?, that the fer'einer couldn't?

Provided local insight based on his twenty to thirty years of doing his job
in one of many unique "micro-climates" of being downwind of the US Great
Lakes, which is a lot more experience than I have reading current conditions
and prognostics.

Perhaps you are an educated and skilled meteorologist in addition to being a
successful real estate mogul and newsgroup star, but in my case I know I
would feel more confident talking to a briefer familiar with local Colorado
Rocky Mountain-induced weather more so than a briefer in (Florida, Ohio,
Maine, or anywhere else but there) who can only read the text from the
current and forecast conditions.




--
Peter

On 4/30/2007 9:31:14 PM, Bob Fry wrote:

"PR" == Peter R writes:
PR If that does become the norm, I foresee
PR the number of pilots opting to fly without a briefing, and the
PR related weather and airspace incidents, increasing.

Then you can get busted on VIP TFRs like I was last year.

Which is why I included the speculation that weather and airspace incidents
might rise if hold times increase.

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Peter

On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:39:18 -0400, "Peter R."
wrote in :

I know I
would feel more confident talking to a briefer familiar with local Colorado
Rocky Mountain-induced weather more so than a briefer in (Florida, Ohio,
Maine, or anywhere else but there) who can only read the text from the
current and forecast conditions.

Did you mention that in your complaints to:

http://www.afss.com/feedback/
http://surveys.aopa.org/cgi-bin/qweb...cgi?idx=SP46SS

Over weekend in Kansas.
Briefer in Maine.
Wasted both our times.

On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:30:02 -0400, "Peter R."
wrote:

On 4/30/2007 9:08:21 PM, Nathan Young wrote:

What were weather conditions when you called?

Directly overhead my airport was CAVU. To the east was a line of t-storms and
farther out to the west (Ohio, Indiana, Iowa) also t-storms.

With the closure of the Buffalo FSS last month I believe our calls initially
route to Cleveland with overflow going to Leesburg, Virginia. Apparently
overflows from there go west, as demonstrated by the fact I ultimately talked
to a Phoenix, Az, briefer.

What a bummer. Hopefully this is a one time occurence, and you will
not have to wait for a briefer each time the weather is crap.

You could always get a cell phone with a Chicago area code, which
should direct you to the Kankakee FSS. Like I said, they always seem
to pick up immediately. :-)

Nomen Nescio wrote in
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From: Mxsmanic

Rip writes:

Since you are not a pilot, you have no "need to know".

Since you don't know, your post serves no purpose.

No!
He knows......YOU DON'T KNOW.

You do realize that REAL pilots ( US) have certain codes, passwords
and information that they are not supposed to divulge to the
non flying public . Don't you?
You're a potential threat to Homeland Security.

We're not going to tell you the "secret handshake", either.


What, the one that gets you a free Slurpie at 7-11? NEVER!



Bertie

On 5/1/2007 11:08:18 AM, Larry Dighera wrote:

Did you mention that in your complaints to:

http://www.afss.com/feedback/
http://surveys.aopa.org/cgi-bin/qweb...cgi?idx=SP46SS

I did in the AOPA survey but I have yet to file a feedback with the AFSS link
you provided. Thanks for those, BTW.

--
Peter