This is a dreadful thing. I moved to the UK two years ago in an effort to find some flying work. One of the things that strikes me as insane over here is the lack of current meteorological information to pilots involved in General Aviation. The club I was flying at during my licence conversion got weather faxed from the met office twice a day. If you were planning a flight outside 25 nm you were on your own for finding weather. None of the staff at the club could provide me with even a phone number where I could get weather. The implications on flight safety are outrageous. I remember at the time thinking "if only they had an effective and efficient FSS system here like they do in Canada." The staff at the FSS at CYBW do an excellent job and I hope they are given the chance to stay at Springbank where they'll be allowed to speak directly with pilots.
If anyone has any information regarding a petition or some other such collective voice in these planned closures, please e-mail me at
[email protected] as I would very much like to voice my opposition.
Thanks