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52 Case Example 1: Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport (KMPO) , Tobyhanna, PA The Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport is owned and operated by the Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport Authority.
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Case Examples 53 The timeline of this project spanned approximately 42 months from the signing of the Reimbursable Agreement in the late winter of 2015 to its closeout in the summer of 2018. This is considerably longer than what might have been expected for the relocation of existing equipment.
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54 Airport Surface Weather Observation Options for General Aviation Airports the time. The winning bidder elected to install an AWI system, which was not the manufacturer of the existing system, an older Vaisala model.
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Case Examples 55 The airport secured a state grant in 2018 to add a ceilometer to the system. The state grant supported 90% of the approximately $40,000 cost of the equipment.
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56 Airport Surface Weather Observation Options for General Aviation Airports The presence of the solar panels within the wind arc and the visibility octant was discussed with the coordinator of the FAA's Non-Federal Program for NAVAIDs and AWOS. If relocating the proposed AWOS III or the solar farm is not possible, the coordinator recommended the private firm submit a Form 7460 in order for the FAA to officially evaluate the proposed impacts and determine how or whether this installation could meet the AWOS siting order.
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Case Examples 57 possible to locate all the systems so that they met all the siting criteria. The siting issues were resolved by first reviewing each airport with the FAA Non-Federal coordinator to identify the challenges and select locations that would be least compromised but that could still provide reliable data.
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58 Airport Surface Weather Observation Options for General Aviation Airports in assisting with airspace coordination, system information gathering, and facilitating the VHF frequency assignment for the new systems. This last item was challenging, because it was atypical for so many new frequencies to be assigned at once.
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Case Examples 59 System benefits have not been documented in any official manner. Working under the theory that more weather reporting provides for a safer system overall, the project provided a benefit by expanding nationally available METAR coverage to many rural areas that were underserved by NAS weather reporting.
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60 Airport Surface Weather Observation Options for General Aviation Airports information. It was very easy for the UNICOM operator to interpret and relay information to pilots, but they had to make sure that they included the word "advisory." In the mid-2000s, the DOAV set a goal to have GPS approaches and AWOSs reporting at all the public-use airports in the state.
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Case Examples 61 Case Example 7: Alaska Aviation Camera System According to the website of the Alaska Department of Statewide Aviation, Alaska has more than 400 public-use airports. With a land area exceeding the size of Texas, California, and Montana combined, Alaska relies heavily on aviation because 82% of Alaskan communities are not linked by roads.
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62 Airport Surface Weather Observation Options for General Aviation Airports allows users to see for themselves what the current conditions are at a destination airport, and any METARs, terminal aerodrome forecasts (TAFs) , and pilot reports (PIREPs)
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Source: https://avcams.faa.gov/. Figure 17.
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64 Airport Surface Weather Observation Options for General Aviation Airports The air transportation of medical patients by helicopter is colloquially referred to by many names: medevac, life-flight, air ambulance, air-care, and others. The FAA regulations for these operations utilize the term air ambulance, and that is used here.
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Case Examples 65 The medical director of the MCES indicated that in 2018 they had to deny support of approximately 500 transport calls due to a lack of sufficient weather information on site. (Note that this number is anecdotal and not perfectly data supported.)
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