"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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If it's sooooo important to you, why not suscribe to WxWorx, Jeppesen, or
Meteorix, or any of the similar services?

Do all of those services have a trained person on the line who looks at
weather several hours a day and can relate the trends they are seeing?

Yes.

Do you think corporate flight departments would rely on a "talking head"?

That's the big thing that a briefer offers.... "The forecast calls for
"X", but we're seeing rapid improvement (or worsening), and based on that,
I think the forecast may be pessimistic (or optimistic)...

Do FAA briefers have data updated constantly, or just the periodic hour
reports?

WXWork, WSI, Jepp, all are usng data in as close to real-time as one can
get.

What does FSS use?


Also, do all of those services record the briefing, just in case I need a
witness that I got a briefing?

Yup! Probably better records than the FAA.

Say I get a full FSS briefing and no TFR's are mentioned, despite my
request for that info. Then, due to whatever circumstance, I bust a TFR and
get a F-16 escort. My opinion is that having a bona fide record of an FSS
briefing would be a very good piece of evidence on my behalf...

Think of why corporate and commercial aviation DOES NOT use the FAA
services, but private firms.

Here's ananalogy: think of the difference between, say, Honda, Toyota, Ford
and, oh, Yugo, or Lara.