Privatizing Flight Service Stations - AOPA

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Teacherjh wrote:

The FSS can do this for me, and it is not just shifting my work to them
because they have done it a hundred times for a hundred different pilots
that morning. They already have a good idea what's in those reports, I
do
not (having just
gotten them for the first time). So, I much prefer that FSS pick out
the
relevant stations and tell me what's in them.

No, it's not shifting your work to them. You do your work anyway.

I do pretty much what you do: I do everyone via computer on my own, and I
then call FSS as "backup". They might know of something I've missed or
that wasn't available to me, for example.

But what some people may forget during these threads is that FSS is also
available in-flight...where many of us don't have Internet access.
Recently, for example, I'd made a last-minute decision to flight the
Hudson
VFR corridor instead of my preplanned route north. But what about
possible
TRFs?

A quick call to FSS answered my question (in the negative, happily).

FSS has missed numerous TFRs in the past in which case you are still the bad
guy if you bust one. I would never trust what they say without backing it
up via DUATS if at all possible. Especially TFRs.

Dave Stadt wrote:

A quick call to FSS answered my question (in the negative, happily).

FSS has missed numerous TFRs in the past in which case you are still the
bad
guy if you bust one. I would never trust what they say without backing it
up via DUATS if at all possible. Especially TFRs.

It's tough to use DUATS from the air.

I don't know...our FSS (Millville) has always seemed to be on top of things
in the neighborhood. I'd not expect details on a TFR elsewhere, but around
here?

- Andrew