I don't understand why we have to go through the ass pain of submitting a report if nothing unsafe happened during the flight. It's a complete waste of time. If something unsafe happens, I'll submit an ASAP report.
I don't understand why we have to go through the ass pain of submitting a report if nothing unsafe happened during the flight. It's a complete waste of time. If something unsafe happens, I'll submit an ASAP report.
You're not thinking about this militarily. Someone wouldn't be able to put some ridiculous metric in their fitrep like "implemented and maintained a cutting edge safety incident reporting system which confirms a 99.7% safe in-flight environment."
I don't understand why we have to go through the ass pain of submitting a report if nothing unsafe happened during the flight. It's a complete waste of time. If something unsafe happens, I'll submit an ASAP report.
I would be surprised if the AGs are writing the TAF. That is mostly NWS data. It strikes me that 30G60 wouldn’t be that unusual in a moderately strong thunderstorm, no?
Interesting. Where do local AGs have the opportunity to interpret raw data and write a TAF? With the centralization of Navy Wx services, I imagine there are very few stations where AGs make local observations. Whenever I’ve been on the road getting the Wx brief from a Navy or USAF base ops, I’ve watched them cut/paste TAF/METAR data directly from the NWS site into the -1. These days, we mostly just use the aero weather app, which is awesome, then get the -1 for the 3710 check in the box.
Wow. Talk about a blast from the past; I remember that. I was living permanent party in the Q back when you could do that, and about to move to Meridian. No kidding, the hailstones were the size of freaking softballs. Dented the ever loving shit out of my car. Punched holes in the tar-paper or whatever flat roof of the Q, too, and basically let the rain flood whatever Ivan hadn’t. I was glad to finally move, and get out of the resulting moldfest.A couple more oddities in their computer model, one is it very readily forecasts hail. I think that is an artifact of the freak hailstorm in 2005 that downed nearly all of the TW-5 fleet.
I think @nittany just called me old.Wow. Talk about a blast from the past
Interesting. Where do local AGs have the opportunity to interpret raw data and write a TAF? With the centralization of Navy Wx services, I imagine there are very few stations where AGs make local observations.
Whenever I’ve been on the road getting the Wx brief from a Navy or USAF base ops, I’ve watched them cut/paste TAF/METAR data directly from the NWS site into the -1.
These days, we mostly just use the aero weather app, which is awesome, then get the -1 for the 3710 check in the box.