New FSS Policy

In a previous article, "Jay Beckman" said:
FSS has a new trick, calling the contact number on your flightplan at or
BEFORE your ETA...

That happened to me once about 8 years ago. I was on a VFR flight plan to
Saranac Lake, but since it was a calm day I decided to take a circuit
around Whiteface Mountain before landing. I was about 10 minutes over ETA
when somebody called on Saranac Lake Unicom asking if I was on the
frequency, because Flight Service had called them to see if I'd arrived
yet.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Why is there only one Monopolies and Mergers Commission?
-- JNP

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Jay Beckman" said:

FSS has a new trick, calling the contact number on your flightplan at or
BEFORE your ETA...


That happened to me once about 8 years ago. I was on a VFR flight plan to
Saranac Lake, but since it was a calm day I decided to take a circuit
around Whiteface Mountain before landing. I was about 10 minutes over ETA
when somebody called on Saranac Lake Unicom asking if I was on the
frequency, because Flight Service had called them to see if I'd arrived
yet.


If you were ten minutes over your ETA it didn't happen to you.

In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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around Whiteface Mountain before landing. I was about 10 minutes over ETA
when somebody called on Saranac Lake Unicom asking if I was on the
frequency, because Flight Service had called them to see if I'd arrived
yet.

If you were ten minutes over your ETA it didn't happen to you.

Except my understanding at the time was that FSS didn't start searching
until 30 minutes or an hour after your ETA.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
If I have pinged farther than others, it is because I routed upon
the T3s of giants.
-- Greg Andrews

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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Except my understanding at the time was that FSS didn't start searching
until 30 minutes or an hour after your ETA.


Correct, so what Jay Beckman described didn't happen to you eight years ago.