Thursday, March 07, 2013

Presidio Lely International (T77), Presidio, Texas: Airport gets Federal Aviation Administration-approved weather system

PRESIDIO – Pilots landing and departing from Presidio Lely International Airport now have a new tool at their disposal. The Federal Aviation Administration on February 27 inspected and commissioned an Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the county airfield.

The weather system generates real time weather reports every minute, making those reports available to airport personnel and pilots.

“Pilots and interested parties may access the data 24 hours per day via telephone or VHF radio frequency,” Presidio County Airports Manager Chase Snodgrass said this week via email.

In addition, the Presidio AWOS will be linked digitally to the National Weather Service, “providing real time weather reporting for south Presidio County, and much improved weather forecasting for our area,” said Snodgrass.

He added that the installation of the weather system has the potential to increase medical and tourism flight access to the airport by enabling pilots to improve their preflight planning.

The move, Snodgrass said, “will enable medical life saving flights and other arrivals during times when meteorological conditions have previously prevented access using visual flight rules alone.”

To hear current weather conditions in Presidio, call 432.229.4805 or tune in by VHF radio frequency 118.0.


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