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From: marcum@sun.uucp (Alan Marcum)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Aviation Weather?
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 13:49:42 EST
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> I have also see an ad for a device that will access
> the FAA's Interim Voice Response System for weather
> retrival.  Does anyone out there know anything about
> IVRS?
> 		Lee Rosenbaum
>     Data:	ixe5m!leer

I've used IVRS (and its predecessor) for a couple of years now.
It's a touch-tone controlled voice-response weather system, providing
hourly surface observations, terminal forecasts, winds aloft forecasts,
TWEB route forecasts, selected weather warnings.  The FAA is still
working on making it fully operational.

I've found its primary use in flight planning about a day in advance.
NOTAMs are not in the system, so a call to the FSS is still required.
But, to get some idea of the weather and winds the day before, without
waiting in some foolish FSS queue, it's very useful.

As far as a device for accessing IVRS, I have one on my desk: it's called
a telephone.

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Alan M. Marcum				Sun Microsystems, Technical Consulting
...!{dual,ihnp4}!sun!nescorna!marcum	Mountain View, California