7900.5D

Anyone have the phone number and address for Air Traffic Services?
That is where we send our FAA Form 1320-19.
1.9. User Responsibilities. Employee participation in directive writing and upkeep activities is encouraged. Any user who finds a subject matter conflict, an error, obsolete information, or who would like to make recommendations or suggestions should notify Air Traffic Services, in writing. FAA Form 1320-19, Directive Feedback Information, is available for this purpose. If clarification or correction is urgently needed, you may call Air Traffic Services for guidance, but you should also use the FAA Form 1320-19 as a follow-up to verbal conversation.

Table 2-1 added a footnote:
...to the "Time of Beginning/Ending of Thunderstorms" blocks. To be consistent,
wouldn't that mean VCTS counts in the TSB/TSE times?

lmao hokiefan!

skobie

Manual observations must now be kept electronically.


Supervisors can temporarily suspend an observer’s certificate.

A question has been brought to my attention:
When ALDARS reports ex: LTG DSNT E
Do we have to report CB DSNT E?
We have been reporting the CB at my station but I have been made aware that some sights are not and just leaving it blank.
I cannot find in the "D" where it states it. To me its always just been common knowledge that if you have DSNT LTG you will have a DSNT CB

Good question, hlsto2. Probably because there would be few, if any, LAWRS Observers left to take actual observations!

skobie

That alone, above, would be enough to get an entire CWO office fired. Where's the QC Plan for LAWRS stations and what's an acceptable, monthly error free rate??? The FMH-1 states very clearly in the first few pages that a QC Plan is the single-most important part of taking surface weather observations. The monthly error-free rate should be known ahead of time and if they can't hack it after 2 months, they're gone and no more taking "weather observations" (and I use that term loosely at a LAWRS site to begin with)! It's really that simple. Can you imagine if all the CWO sites mimicked the average LAWRS site for just a month? There'd be hell to pay and we'd all be out of jobs. What fate did the obstrollers at the above LAWRS site suffer? None. They were simply "re-trained" so they could live another day to majorly screw up again. That's not how this works. Get a clue AJT and stop the nonsense of having different standards for people who are performing (or trying to perform in the case of LAWRS sites) the same job, not to mention that LAWRS sites don't have to even follow half the augmenting/back-up rules that CWOs do. And quit making up crap that a major error is having ALDARS turned off at CWO sites because it's AJT-21's baby (probably getting some sort of kick-back to promote the piece of junk too). That's not a major operational error. The crap above is!

skobie