Pleased with current FSS

On Oct 31, 6:03 pm, (Ron Lee) wrote:
I took a long trip from Colorado to TN to GA, Kitty Hawk, NC, MO and
back home and used FSS multiple times. Wait time was essentially ZERO
and the briefings were complete, useful and professional. I have
heard of horror stories but I did not encounter any.

Ron Lee

Hopefully its getting better. I spent 20 minutes on hold in my plane
trying to get an IFR clearance through FSS on my cell phone.

-Robert

"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

On Oct 31, 6:03 pm, (Ron Lee) wrote:
I took a long trip from Colorado to TN to GA, Kitty Hawk, NC, MO and
back home and used FSS multiple times. Wait time was essentially ZERO
and the briefings were complete, useful and professional. I have
heard of horror stories but I did not encounter any.

Ron Lee

Hopefully its getting better. I spent 20 minutes on hold in my plane
trying to get an IFR clearance through FSS on my cell phone.

-Robert

Seems like I heard some ATC facility encourage a pilot to NOT use FSS
to get a clearance on the same trip. I did not use FSS during the
initial takeover by LockMart so my point of reference is only this
past week.

Ron Lee

We've done that here. Hell, we couldn't get a hold of FSS on our dial
line. So we'll offer to just file the IFR flight plan for you if you're
reduced to having to try and get them on the radio.




Ron Lee wrote:


Seems like I heard some ATC facility encourage a pilot to NOT use FSS
to get a clearance on the same trip. I did not use FSS during the
initial takeover by LockMart so my point of reference is only this
past week.

Ron Lee