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- From: phil@pex.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
- Subject: Re: Flying into Ice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.194749.28496@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu (Mr. Usenet)
- Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
- References: <cfMIv_e00WB90QY4QJ@andrew.cmu.edu> <JKF.93Jan24181254@frisky.Franz.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:47:49 GMT
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- In article <JKF.93Jan24181254@frisky.Franz.COM> jkf@Franz.COM (Sean Foderaro) writes:
- >
- >>> One last thing. File PIREPS!!!
- >
- > I think that we would all get much more reliable icing reports if it
- >were really easy for the controller to contact the FSS and make pireps.
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- I agree 110 percent with this!
-
- > Meanwhile the pilot may not feel that he has the free time to
- >switch frequencies and call up FSS (I certainly didn't when I had icing).
- >So we are losing lots of useful icing data.
-
- However.....won't flight service take pireps over the phone?
- If you got ice on the approach, call 'em when you're down and safe.
-
- William LeFebvre
- Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Northwestern University
- <phil@eecs.nwu.edu>
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