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I ran across this pic of the new FS2000 work stations.
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That kind of looks like their renowned FSS specialist, Dr. Zachariah Smith!:D
 
I wonder if that's the system they were using at Oshkosh.

If so, it seems pretty useless. The briefer I talked to had about 10 browser windows open to various commercial sites. Getting NOTAMs was actually more difficult than it would be by using DUAT, and for a lot of the other stuff, he was just using ADDS and other similar sites. That might be fine, but it certainly doesn't seem like much of a "system" to me....

-Felix
 
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I'm pretty sure that scope is for the vhf direction finding system FSS stations used to have.

It was once part of the private pilot syllabus to call an FSS for a DF fix if one was lost.
 
I used a DF steer once. It was actually pretty cool. Sucks that they're getting rid of it; it seems like a good system, if anyone would actually use it.
 
Teller1900 said:
I used a DF steer once. It was actually pretty cool. Sucks that they're getting rid of it; it seems like a good system, if anyone would actually use it.
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Unless they have low-level radar in places like South Dakota, it's a good idea to keep it.
 
Teller1900 said:
I used a DF steer once. It was actually pretty cool. Sucks that they're getting rid of it; it seems like a good system, if anyone would actually use it.
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were you lost?

KennyFlys said:
Unless they have low-level radar in places like South Dakota, it's a good idea to keep it.
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i visited the Huron, SD FSS once when I was working on MEI and needed the PIC time. they had a big sectional of the state that they used to help find lost people. also mentioned that one of the guys there had gotten a nice award or something for finding some lost dude one night, i think using a DF steer. Nice folks at Huron, all of them gone now, I think they were in the first round.
 
tonycondon said:
were you lost?
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No. Bored. Coming back to IWA from VGT late one night we decided to shut the dual 430s off, cancel IFR, and have some fun. Neither of us had ever done a DF steer, so we figured that would be a good time to see what it was all about. We told the FSS specialist that we weren't actually lost and just wanted to see what it was all about. He told us to fly off course for a little while and said he'd do his best to get us to our next checkpoint. Sure enough...he got us to the checkpoint, turned us on course to the next checkpoint, then told us who to call for a pop-up IFR. That was back before LM.
 
tonycondon said:
were you lost?
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If Matt wasn't, I was. :hairraise:

I got DF steers from Pierre FSS through the help of ZMP on August 25, 1986. I made my last flight for nineteen years two days later before a suspension pending a 609 review. The review had more to do with entering IMC without an IR. I learned a huge lesson that night.

BTW, is Pierre FSS even still open?

also mentioned that one of the guys there had gotten a nice award or something for finding some lost dude one night, i think using a DF steer.
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Did they happen to say when it was? Or, if the "dude" was in a 152? :D

I can look back on it somewhat jokingly now but it has drilled in home how I approach flight safety as well as how I'll teach it.
 
KennyFlys said:
If Matt wasn't, I was. :hairraise:

I got DF steers from Pierre FSS through the help of ZMP on August 25, 1986. I made my last flight for nineteen years two days later before a suspension pending a 609 review. The review had more to do with entering IMC without an IR. I learned a huge lesson that night.

BTW, is Pierre FSS even still open?


Did they happen to say when it was? Or, if the "dude" was in a 152? :D

I can look back on it somewhat jokingly now but it has drilled in home how I approach flight safety as well as how I'll teach it.
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I vote this sounds like a story worth telling in "Lessons Learned," if Kenny will indulge us!
 
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