Paul Tomblin wrote:

Every time I go outside of our area, I'm struck by how much better the
weather briefers are when I'm not talking to Buffalo AFSS. There are very
few briefers in Buffalo who do more than read you the numbers. One
exception - before I had my instrument rating, there was one briefer who
was famous in the local pilot community for saying "VFR Flight Not
Recommended" whenever there was a single cloud below 5,000 feet anywhere
in the state.

Hey, Paul. I enjoy reading your posts since you are more or less local to
me (My aircraft is based at SYR).

I speak to Buffalo for flight briefings at least three times a week over
the phone and many times while in the air. My observation is that there
are definitely a couple of briefers that stick to a tight script, do not
offer any additional information, and are in a rush to end the call.

A few times I asked the briefers what they thought about the FSS changes
that are going on and in every case I received a mouthful. Some of them
were very close to retirement and are now facing retirement without the US
government benefits package, so they are understandably very disgruntled.

It will probably be this way until the transition to Lockheed Martin is
complete, sometime over the next year and a half. Then it will be an
entirely different game of "What briefer will take my call?"



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