On 8/16/2007 10:48:17 AM, Larry Dighera wrote:

Perhaps not total. The system may be programmed (currently) to
require a destination different from the departure point. Hopefully
that will be corrected.

It is irrelevant what the system is currently programmed to do. Area
briefings are a service that is provided by FSS because there are many
examples of their necessity, as you know. Touch and goes in the pattern, air
work for students or proficiency-concerned pilots, practice IFR approaches,
etc.

If the system is only designed to provide a point-A to point-B routing
briefing, the briefer should be competent enough to work around that
limitation. To tell a pilot that s/he is unable to provide an area briefing
is doing nothing more than admitting his/her ineptitude.

--
Peter