argh - muzak on wxbrief

In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

According to
AOPA, the AFSS should answer your phone call within 20 seconds and
radio calls within 5 seconds. You must receive service from your
radio call within 15 seconds. PIREPs must be processed within 30
seconds and within 15 seconds if they are urgent.

Well, I should probably report Terra Haute FSS for not answering my
radio call in a timely manner. I tried one frequency for a minute, then
switched to another and had to unsquelch the circuit to hear them.

john smith wrote:
In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

According to
AOPA, the AFSS should answer your phone call within 20 seconds and
radio calls within 5 seconds. You must receive service from your
radio call within 15 seconds. PIREPs must be processed within 30
seconds and within 15 seconds if they are urgent.

Well, I should probably report Terra Haute FSS for not answering my
radio call in a timely manner. I tried one frequency for a minute, then
switched to another and had to unsquelch the circuit to hear them.

Terre Haute is great on the phone, but leaves a lot to be desired on the
radio...or so it was when I was flying up there. I remember asking
center for things that I really should have gone to FSS for...center
would tell me to contact FSS, and once, when I was NOT willing to swap
frequencies in IMC just to get a weather update from FSS, I flat out
told Indy Center that I didn't have time to wait for Terre Haute to
reply to me. Controller didn't sound surprised, lol.

But, like I said, they were nothing but fast and polite on the phone.
Especially compared to Kankakee. Ugh.

In article ,
Emily wrote:

But, like I said, they were nothing but fast and polite on the phone.

I agree. When I stopped in Wabash to wait out weather, the briefer on
the phone had local knowledge of the weather patterns that was
invaluable.