What are the chances that the ATSB will think about the consequences of replacing the good old-fashioned but highly experienced met observer, whose true value lay in their propensity for a dingo's breakfast (quick slash and a sloowww look around), with AWS that may detect something in the narrow overhead window but sees nothing coming or going.
Will they question the seemingly increasing reliance by less knowledgeable pilots on METARs, which are merely a data snapshot from an unintelligent recording device? And to what extent is aviation truly being served by the withdrawal to centralised forecasting centres where macro phenomena are much better predicted but local phenomena like fogs and crappy weather on Norfolk and Christmas Islands are not?
Will the aviation community now get a bit more interested in the BoM TAF and TTF Reviews?
