want some cheese?
Same as they were on the redboard last week. LM SW LWR MI and KGRR.
And sorry, the well it was still a VFR forecast doesn't really cut it for me. Forecasts of OVC035 is technically VFR, but if I cancel a flight lesson, because I don't really feel like doing manuevers with only a 1500' block, and then it ends up being SKC, something is wrong.
Then don't cancel based on a forecast...
I'm just saying they should at least be close to correct!
I'm just saying they should at least be close to correct!
Is there someone you can write to request a refund?
Trapper John
I've had some of the better briefers tell me as much, in so many words. I don't rely on FSS for wx unless I'm away from my computer, like I was today. I could have gotten the same information from WSI at KVLL but decided to let him read it to me to save a few minutes.Pilots that rely solely on a FSS briefing are fooling themselves in my opinion. There are so many more products that are not utilized by FSS, but do add important details that can (at times) fill in the holes that are left after a standard briefing.
I'm glad they blew it. We had a Wings of Mercy flight scheduled for Monday from TVC-ARB-ERY-TVC (Traverse City to Ann Arbor to Newberry to Traverse City), and it sure looked like getting into ARB could be problematic from the TAFs available Sunday evening. Looked like scud running at best, as icing would keep us from filing.Yesterday FAs and TAFs were not even remotely close.
OVC050 = SKC ?
I was assuming you were talking about the morning hours based on the FA that was issued at 1045Z
SRN LM SWRN LWR MI...BKN050 LYRD 140. ISOL -SHSN. OTLK...VFR.
Here's the terminal forecast issued at 1720Z...
KGRR 011720Z 0118/0218 35007KT P6SM SCT150
FM020700 01004KT P6SM SKC=
I need to make my flight decisions by 10am local. A post noon-issuance does me no good. I've given up on trusting any forecasts.
Then what do you use to make a go or stay decision?