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Flying Menu > Preparing
For Flight > Flight
Planning > Weather
> Specific Weather Preparation
• On the evening before a flight call an AFSS for an
outlook briefing (6 or more hours before the proposed launch—know
what hours an AFSS makes new information available).
• Devote particular attention to television or radio weather
reports the night before a flight.
• Locate and use automated weather stations: NWS, Automatic
Terminal Information Service (ATIS), Automatic Weather Observing
System (AWOS), Harbor Masters, Highway Department, and State
Parks.
• On the morning of a flight, phone an AFSS for a Standard
Briefing.
• On the way to the launch site, develop weather observation
points, such as a tree in someone’s yard, smoke at a factory,
or a flag at a car dealership.
• At the launch site, check a windsock or tetrahedron,
talk with other pilots, or send up a pilot balloon (pibal).
Observe smoke, flags, or other balloons.
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