Aviation Meteorology/Flight Service Station Jobs

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ktsai91

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I'm still unsure about my future career. I took a Meteorology class last semester in community college and got an A for it. I'm somewhat interested in meteorology also and I wanted to apply this to aviation. Another aviation career that I'm thinking of is working at a Flight Service Station. I was thinking particularly that I could brief pilots about the weather, send flight plans to the ATC maybe (is that another task that FSS briefers do?), and stuff like that. By chance does a briefer need a medical certificate like pilots and ATC do? If a weather briefer at a FSS isn't possible, what other careers in aviation meteorology can I do?

I know that ERAU in Daytona Beach Florida has Applied Meteorology but it's too far away from my NJ home. Rutgers New Brunswick has a Meteorology Minor but my friend knows another friend that majors in Meteorology at Rutgers. Does Rutgers also has Meteorology as a major?
 
know that ERAU in Daytona Beach Florida has Applied Meteorology but it's too far away from my NJ home.
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If you're limiting yourself to the distance of a good education in the field what will you do if you may have to relocate for the specified job you're searching for? Can't say I know many jobs in the aviation meteo dept in the jersey area. Jersey is a needle in a haystack for aviation jobs flying or not.
 
I'm at Penn State studying Meteorology. Intro level Meteo classes usually present the major topics without any of the math behind them. Make sure you are comfortable with math (through vector calculus and differential equations) and physics. In few classes further down the line, you'll start encountering things like:
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. With that said, its a fun discipline to study. I cant speak to rutgers program or most others for that matter, but if you have general questions about the science, I'm happy to try to answer them.
 
Will I need a medical certificate to be a briefer who works at a Flight Service Station like pilots and ATC?
 
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