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A-9er
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No. You send the FO (copilot) out to do a manual observation in accordance with the FARs. That's why all new hire FOs get anemometers after they finish Indoc
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bbmikej
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All of our aircraft are equipped with a portable weather rock for those situations.
Our FizzDoe didn't like the WX rocks,hence the manual obs
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A-9er
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I was unclear before. At one of the smaller airports in CO, we could get a TAF out of Fusion or aviationweather.gov; we could NOT get one for the same airport in LIDO. Don't ask me WHY that was; it just was. It was LIDO being LIDO...
thegriffinpages
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Everything comes down to money my friend.
And yet when something happens a la UPS and the NTSB finds a cause of "the flight crew's expectation that they would break out of the clouds at 1,000 feet above ground level due to incomplete weather information" do you want to be the one at the public hearing who has to tell the NTSB when asked about why the flight planning software failed to provide complete wx info to tell them umm the better software was too expensive. OR do you want to be like Compass Air who now has to pay $869,125 dollars to the FAA for a lack of Mexican wx info on a multitude of flights. Yes everything comes down to money but do you want to be the one to tell the government that providing relevant and necessary info to your crews was out of your price range?
thegriffinpages
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I wouldn’t for sure, but it’s not my call.
I guess that’s something the decision maker would have to live with.
As stated before, it sounds like there are many ways to get needed information. It just takes a little more time.
Honestly, it’s the Dispatcher that will likely get blamed.
“Why didn’t you use an alternate source of information?”
Instead of:
“Why are you going cheap on your software?”
So when in doubt, don’t be lazy, use all available resources, and CYA.
A-9er
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That's the whole reason WHY TSH made the switch to LIDO-$$$$. And, as i stated before, ALWAYS use multiple sources; CYA, absolutely.
Is flightplanGO an approved notam source? It puts all the this will kill you stuff in red at the top of the notam list making it easier to see than having to sift through pages of beoken tower lights. Who here wishes that the notam system would be upgraded? It isnt the 90s anymore so not everything has to be shortend into 140 characters or less like its twitter.
So since both sabre and lido and most likely all other flight planning software have issues with notams and wx is it best to just skip checking the weather on the software and go right to whatever approved other sources you have and the faa website to get the latest notams then copy and paste all of it into the flight plan?
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thegriffinpages
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DispatcherSam
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You will, just don’t rush the process at all, like ever. You will have a LOT of info to process without whatever else you think you need to know before you’re taught it. Trust the process. It has made plenty of successful dispatchers over the years.