sunny9
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Post by sunny9 on Jan 26, 2017 23:00:17 GMT -5
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Post by northwx on Jan 31, 2017 17:33:16 GMT -5
Too bad NWS is giving up these sites... It used to be that the way to get on with NWS as a met tech was to sign up for a 2-year stint at St.Paul Island (worst wx in the US and you get to smell the seals)or Annette (where it rains sideways almost daily and only 1 or 2 sunny days/year). Almost took the job at Cold Bay myself, but will stay where I am - the job security the NWS offered is now totaled. They will probably just become stand-alone sites that will kill someone - I don't see the FAA manning or contracting them.
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Post by tornado on Feb 1, 2017 13:16:11 GMT -5
If you look at the 100 busiest airports in the USA, as in this link: Top 100 US AirportsSome Pacific Island airports are in the top 100 for passengers. Including: 51 Kahului (PHOG) 69 Guam (PGUM) 74 Kona (PHKO) 78 Lihue (PHLI) Guam and Lihue are in the report. |
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Post by northwx on Feb 1, 2017 18:27:13 GMT -5
"Busiest" makes sense if you live where you have roads and aren't totally dependent on aviation to maintain a lifestyle more improved than hunter/gatherer (which really ain't all that bad, but doesn't provide well for retirement). The 150 or so folks that live on St.Paul Island need manned weather observation - the weather is really crummy for both aviation and nautical service to their community. Stand-alone will kill folks, but count on it never making the news - it will be "pilot error" or some such, never the fault of the robot. Some arrogant cubicle idiot thinks somehow that this will save $ (and give the idiot a bonus?) - of what value is even a single life? The whole community, when we are so small, suffers immensely when even one dies traumatically. Wish I had known ahead of time this was happening - I would have fought it. Stand-alone at those sites does not bode well for the rest of in Alaska.
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