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AIM 4-1-9(d), "Airport Advisory/Information Services Provided by a FSS" discusses local airport advisories (LAA) and remote airport advisories (RAA), in which pilots can get airport advisory information (traffic, weather, etc.) via a flight service station.
I am wondering how common this is anymore.
LAA service used to be available at Green Bay when we had a flight service station on the field. I never used it, but I assume the FSS provided info when the control tower was closed at night. GRB no longer has a flight service station physically on the field. For a while after the FSS's closure, the sectional chart still had a heavy-outlined VOR box near GRB, which would make someone assume there is still FSS on the field. But during that transition period, a NOTAM was issued saying LAA service was not available. Eventually, the VOR box started having the normal thin outline.
Moving south, the next closest flight service station that survived the initial chop is Kankakee, IL. On the current sectional chart, it still has a heavy-outlined box and last I heard of, there was still a flight service station on the field. So I would assume LAA service is available. However, I heard that the Kankakee FSS is going to close.
I'm having trouble finding any information on which flight service stations are still open and which are gone. Can anyone help? I am aware of the three new hubs. Are the hubs going to take over ALL flight services, or will there still be some outlying stations?
And the larger question, which I am trying to clarify for myself and my ground school class: If there are say only three FSS hubs plus or minus a few outlying stations, who still has LAA / RAA service at their airports? Is this service going away?
When I was in Kankakee a couple years ago, I got a helpful airport advisory from the FSS on the field letting me know of a non-radio ag plane doing spraying very near the airport. Just wondering if this type of service is going bye-bye with the FSS consolidation.
I am wondering how common this is anymore.
LAA service used to be available at Green Bay when we had a flight service station on the field. I never used it, but I assume the FSS provided info when the control tower was closed at night. GRB no longer has a flight service station physically on the field. For a while after the FSS's closure, the sectional chart still had a heavy-outlined VOR box near GRB, which would make someone assume there is still FSS on the field. But during that transition period, a NOTAM was issued saying LAA service was not available. Eventually, the VOR box started having the normal thin outline.
Moving south, the next closest flight service station that survived the initial chop is Kankakee, IL. On the current sectional chart, it still has a heavy-outlined box and last I heard of, there was still a flight service station on the field. So I would assume LAA service is available. However, I heard that the Kankakee FSS is going to close.
I'm having trouble finding any information on which flight service stations are still open and which are gone. Can anyone help? I am aware of the three new hubs. Are the hubs going to take over ALL flight services, or will there still be some outlying stations?
And the larger question, which I am trying to clarify for myself and my ground school class: If there are say only three FSS hubs plus or minus a few outlying stations, who still has LAA / RAA service at their airports? Is this service going away?
When I was in Kankakee a couple years ago, I got a helpful airport advisory from the FSS on the field letting me know of a non-radio ag plane doing spraying very near the airport. Just wondering if this type of service is going bye-bye with the FSS consolidation.