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B-227183 1 (1988-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtmk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G M United Sitates * twLUI General Accounting Offle Wasl-ington, D.C. 20848 Offwe of the General Counsel 8- 127183 August 22- 1988 The Honorable Robert F. Smith House of Representatives Dear Mr. Smith: In your March 4, 1988, letter, you noted that, due to the recent closing by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of a flight service station in Baker, Oregon, general aviation pilots no longer obtain flight condition reports directly from flight service specialists at that station. As we reported in Aviation Services--Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations (GAO/RCED-88-77, February 1988), flight service stations such as the one formerly in Baker are being consolidated and the remaining consolidated stations are to be automated. Although the consolidated stations will continue to provide all services which are required by law, other services that were provided by closed flight service stations are being reduced or eliminated. Weather observations for the general area will continue to be available to pilots, through the consolidated flight service stations. However, airport advisories (information on weather in the immediate airport area and on air and ground traffic), which had been provided by flight service specialists at many stations such as Baker, are not available. The weather observers who remain physically located at closed flight service station areas like Baker, and who are under contract with the National Weather Service, report their observations to the nearest flight service station, from which area pilots get information. The observers are not required under the existing contracts to provide airport advisories or otherwise to respond to requests from pilots for up-to-the-minute weather and traffic information. The weather observers in Eaker and other locations no longer having flight service stations could transmit directly to pilots the kind of information formerly provided in airport advisories, using UNICOM, a two-way radio frequency used by the general aviation community. Such direct communications

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