"kage" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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One look out the window to see the crab angle and a peek at the GPS
grounspeed makes ATIS/ASOS/Windsocks superfluous.

How true. Sometimes you've got to wonder what people are looking for
before landing.

What I like are the guys who obviously aren't carrying a sectional chart
(or any other airport information) and insist on calling Unicom for an
"airport advisory" -- despite the airport having a published AWOS
frequency.


AWOS won't necessarily give you the active runway.

Far as I know AWOS will never give an active runway. I do believe an active
runway at a non towered airport is any runway a pilot wishes to use. The
most useless radio call is "clear of the active" at a non towered airport.
Well, tied anyway with "traffic in the area please advise" and "airport
advisories."