On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:43:21 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:

EPM has had an AWOS-A for some time now. Why would one be installed at a
field where manual weather observations are being taken? The observers
would still have to determine visibility, cloud cover, temperature,
dewpoint, and wind.

Not being a mindreader, I cannot answer your question about "why"?

Nor do I know when the AWOS was installed, or how that correlates with
"manual weather observations".

However, as one who frequently flies SIAP's into KEPM, I find it quite
useful to have a current altimeter setting, so as to take advantage of the
lower minimums compared with using an altimeter setting from KBHB.

As I previously wrote, when manual observations were being done, the
frequency with which they were disseminated was perhaps one every few
weeks. This was not very useful to me for routine operations.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)