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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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| NOTAM Changes Imminent / Rose Marie Kern |
| Many of you may have heard that the US NOTAM office is mandating changes to the methods by which NOTAMs are formatted. This is scheduled to be implemented at the first of the year.
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| The History of Flight Service / Rose Marie Kern |
| Did you know that Flight Service was originally a division of the Post Office? In combination with the Army, the Post Office developed Air Mail Routes along the east coast. Then in 1918, the military transferred operations to the Post Office and by 1920 a transcontinental route was established with17 Air Mail Radio Stations (AMRS) in activation.
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| Painless Pilot Weather Briefing / Rose Marie Kern |
| In air traffic it is a joke that an Air Traffic Controller tells pilots where to go. But a Flight Service Specialist tells pilots where NOT to go, and his method of doing that is by using a standard weather briefing format.
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| China cutting back on flights |
| China's aviation authority has announced plans to reduce flights due to safety concerns, banning the creation of new airlines before 2010.
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| Amazon power outage forces Brazil flights back |
| One day after Brazil's president insisted that air safety met international standards despite a devastating plane crash, an air traffic control outage forced 5 flights to turn back to Sao Paulo, officials said Saturday.
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