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#1
November 2nd 06, 02:34 PM
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Another Botched use of runways
B A R R Y wrote:
How about guys in pink shirts standing next to the runway? In the days before RVR really worked, when the weather was foggy at some airline airports they had a certified observor standing beside the runway who provided manually observed RVR readings to the tower via an interphone link. 
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November 4th 06, 04:27 AM
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Another Botched use of runways
Actually it was a controller who gave visibility observations in the
vicinity of the touchdown zone from a car. IIRC most airports only had RVV at the time. Al "Sam Spade" wrote in message ... B A R R Y wrote: How about guys in pink shirts standing next to the runway? In the days before RVR really worked, when the weather was foggy at some airline airports they had a certified observor standing beside the runway who provided manually observed RVR readings to the tower via an interphone link.
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November 4th 06, 07:17 PM
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Another Botched use of runways
Allan9 wrote:
Actually it was a controller who gave visibility observations in the vicinity of the touchdown zone from a car. IIRC most airports only had RVV at the time. Al Yes, RVV, not RVR. I thought about that after the posting.
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