Aviation Weather Services A Call For Federal Leadership and Action (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Summary of Findings and Recommendations
Appendix A: Summary of Findings and Recommendations
Pages 63-68
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Recommendation: The FAA should examine selected weather-related Federal Aviation Regulations and undertake rulemaking to incorporate appropriate modifications to enhance efficiency as well as safety. Recommendation: The FAA should assess how proposals to establish a private or federal air traffic services corporation would impact aviation weather services and related research.
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Aviation Weather Services Recommendation: Flight service specialists should remain available as a source of preflight and en route weather information for general aviation and business pilots. Recommendation: The FAA should take He lead in developing tailored and consistent graphic aviation weather products that feature improved accuracy, tuneliness, and resolution.
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Major Recommendation 2 The FAA should provide the leadership needed to develop a comprehensive national training program that improves the practical meteorological skills of users and providers of aviation weather services. Recommendation: The FAA should take the lead in establishing and aggressively pursuing aviation weather goals and priorities that reflect the positions of other involved parties, including the following: other federal agencies and departments; other providers of aviation weather services (e.g., private weather services and state governments)
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Recommendation: The FAA, on behalf of the federal government, should take the lead in finding the means to meet special regional needs for aviation weather services. In regions that have special needs, the FAA should establish a team that includes other responsible federal and state government agencies, He local aviation industry, airport operators, pilots, professional org~ni7ations, and local con~nunities to identify, assess, and properly respond to these needs.
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Recommendation: The FAA Administrator should designate an associate administrator to assume overall responsibility for carrying out the FAA's lead agency role for aviation weather and to serve as a single focal point within the FAA with the authority to provide effective internal and external coordination of aviation weather services and related research programs that involve the FAA. Major Recommendation 7 The FAA should adopt the philosophy that weather services are an important part of its air traffic responsibilities; it should develop procedures and weather products to improve the ability of pilots and air traffic controllers to ensure that aircraft avoid hazardous weather.
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Within 6 months, the executive branch should replace OMB Circular A-62, which has been rescinded without replacement, by issuing "policy guidelines and procedures for planning and conducting Federal meteorological services and applied research and development to improve such services" (OMB Circular A-62; see Chapter 2, page 16, and Appendix D, page 78~. · Within 9 months, the FAA and NOAA/NWS should comply with their existing memorandum of agreement regarding the provision of aviation weather services, or they should implement a new agreement (see Chapter 2, pages 16-19~.
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