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2007-02-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

FAA bans NOAA weather radios in airport control towers

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-03 02:02|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Tornadic activity", sounds like something other than what it means.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-03 09:54|| 2007-02-03 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh fer Crissakes!

The global co. I work for has weather feeds built into our network and communication operation centers. We use them to minimize disruptions to our networks.

HINT TO FAA

You may want to investigate if bad weather can adversely affect airline ops.

Justa thought.

Posted by GORT 2007-02-03 14:07|| 2007-02-03 14:07|| Front Page Top

#3 To me this smells like a turf war and the controllers and the traveling public are caought in the middle of it. The FAA has weather guessers, but since their charter has to do w/ airplanes and over at the NOAA they also have weather guessers, but their charter speaks to the weather; methinks that the NOAA guys have a better batting average than the FAA boys. I agee that any disruptive radio transmissions in the tracon would not be good, I can hardly think that alerting the tower crew to a major event would be classed as disruptive; unless the tracon took it upon themselves to divert incoming due to the NOAA, then the FAA would have some 'splainin' to do.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-02-03 22:20|| 2007-02-03 22:20|| Front Page Top

#4 It has more to do with the FAA management winning a union busting review last spring. Now they're enforcing a lot of nitpicking rules that don't contribute to the flying public's safety.

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2007-02-03 23:11|| 2007-02-03 23:11|| Front Page Top

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