Aviation Weather Services A Call For Federal Leadership and Action (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 2: Current Roles and Missions
Chapter 2: Current Roles and Missions
Pages 14-21
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; and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in accordance with the follow~ng key documents: Organic Act of 1890, as emended, which in its current form establishes the NWS as a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce; Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, which in its current form assigns responsibilities to federal agencies for a wide range of aviation activities, including aviation weather services; National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as amended, which in its current form establishes NASA; Department of Commerce Appropriations Act of 1963, which established requirements for summarizing government-wide budgetary items associated with meteorology; Weather Services Modernization Act, Title VII of Public Law 102-567, October 1992, which requires the Secretary of Commerce to certify that the process of modernizing the NWS will not degrade local weather services; Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
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In order to ensure that these changes do not degrade local weather services, the U.S. Congress included specific conditions within the Weather Services Modernization Act that the Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Transportation must meet prior to closing weather service field offices or replacing airport weather observers with automated weather observing systems.3 The Department of Commerce Appropriations Act of 1963 established a requirement for the Bureau of the Budget to include ir1 each year's budget presentation a summary of all federal programs for meteorology, includiIlg goals and expected costs.
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As of August 1995, OMB had not yet determined whether it would replace Circular A-62 with new guidance or whether new guidance, if forthcoming, would resolve the apparent inconsistency between Circular A-62 and federal legislation. FAA/NOAA Memorandum of Agreement The Memorandum of Agreement Between the FAA and the NOAA for the Establishment of Working Arrangements for Providing Aviation Weather Service arm Meteorological Communications, January 24, 1977, defines a specific, comprehensive approach by the FAA and NWS for providing aviation weather services.
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Defining Aviation Weather Requirements NOAA and the NWS properly view the FAA as the government agency with the expertise and experience to represent the interests of the aviation community. Thus, even though the NWS plays a key role in providing aviation weather services, it has very little direct interaction with the aviation community regarding user requirements.
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Aviation weather is a specialized area that falls outside the mainstream of general-purpose weather services, and aviation forecasters require special skills and expertise to address the unique requirements of aviation. In order to reach their full potential, aviation forecasters should understand what meteorological information pilots, air traffic controllers, and other aviation weather users need in order to operate safely and efficiently.
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the understanding of air traffic controllers and flight service specialists regarding the capabilities, utility, arid limitations of aviation weather information Recommendation: The FAA and NWS should encourage informal interagency meetings between small groups of sta~members at all management levels who are involved in providing or using aviation weather information. In addition, the NWS should enable aviation forecasters to sperm duty time routinely in the environments of the aviation weather users that they support.
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However, if FAA responsibilities for day-to-day operations, system acquisition, research, regulation, and certification were to be split between a residual FAA and a new air traffic services corporation, it might become more difficult for a single organization or official to provide the kind of strong leadership that should be a key element of future efforts to improve aviation weather services and research. Aviation Weather Services The Air Traffic Control Corporation Study asserts that "a government [air traffic services]
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For example, as elaborated upon in Chapter 6, this report recommends that the FAA exert strong leadership in the planning and providing of aviation weather services. Implementation of this recommendation should be initiated immediately, even if the government anticipates establishing a federal or private air traffic services corporation.
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