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| Flight Plan Problem Solving / Rose Marie Kern |
| How many times have you filed a flight plan – with either the Direct Access User Terminal System (DUATS) or Automated Flight Service (AFSS) and when you attempt to get your clearance or activate the plan – it just isn’t there? This is a situation that is highly annoying not just to the pilot, but to ATC people as well.
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| Who Should I Call? / Rose Marie Kern |
| Hi Rose Marie, Thanks for writing those very beneficial articles for us pilots. I could surely use an article about how to best use AFSS and what services they afford us. For instance, I decide to fly from my home base at KALM to Angel Fire or Taos, NM. What is the best way to decide who to talk to on my trip? (Richard Finch, EAA Chapter 251, AOPA , asmel, inst, com, cfi.)
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| ATC Bibles - ATC Reference Materials / Rose Marie Kern |
| Every sector of aviation has a guide, a reference, a “Bible” that defines the rules and regulations we work by, and usually several supplemental documents that allow for regional variations.
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| Crossing the Border - To Mexico! / Rose Marie Kern |
| Anyone heading out of the country for the first time is faced with a lot of “do this don’t do that” regulations that get to be a tad confusing. Especially since there are different regulations for flying out of the United States, than there are for returning.
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| Any Briefer...Is this the best way to use the system? / Rose Marie Kern |
| A recent issue of AOPA magazine pointed out to pilots that the fastest way to get a weather briefer is to call the 1-800-WXBRIEF number and say “Any Briefer”.
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| How to Give a Pilot Report That is Truly Appreciated / Rose Marie Kern |
| About a month ago I listened over the console as a pilot gave a co-worker what can only be labeled as the “pilot report from hell”.
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| Weather Brief Training for Student Pilots / Rose Marie Kern |
| “I am a new sport pilot instructor in Las Cruces. I would like to have my students call for a weather briefing before there lesson. So they can be comfortable with talking with flight service. Do you think this is ok with the work load that is on the briefer?” --LRU
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| FAA embarks on hiring marathon |
| The Federal Aviation Administration aims to grow the size of its air traffic controller staff by about 1,600 over the next 9 years. That won’t be easy given that about 12,300 air traffic controllers are expected to leave the agency during that period, mostly because of retirements.
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| Flight Following / Rose Marie Kern |
| Here is a short test, do you know who provides Flight Following? Many of you may scoff and think I am being funny, but at least twice a week I have a pilot come up on Flight Watch or Radio requesting Flight Following.
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| Air traffic strike to hit Paris next week |
| Flights to and from Paris airports Roissy and Orly are expected be disrupted next week by a strike by air traffic controllers, the civil aviation authority said on Friday.
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