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    FAA decision raises fears about risks

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    The Federal Aviation Administration is ousting all National Weather Service meteorologists from its air traffic control centers to rely solely on automated software for its weather-related decision-making — a shift that some say experts, raises security concerns.

    The FAA announced it would end its more than 40-year partnership with the NWS, effective April 20, according to a press release from the National Weather Service Employees Organization. The termination will eliminate on-site meteorologists at each of the 21 U.S. air traffic control centers that provide weather forecast support to help prevent aviation accidents in lieu of software accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

    Using computer models, radar and satellite data, these meteorologists currently provide daily briefings and real-time guidance on rapidly changing weather events to help air traffic control make routing decisions. The release said there are currently no plans for the FAA to replace in-person meteorologists.

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    The FAA did not immediately respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment.

    The National Weather Service Employees Organization said the move “will endanger the safety of flights through the national airspace for the traveling public and airline industry crews” and that due to the lack of staff, “this new directive will increase the risks” in a letter addressed to US Senator Sherrod Brown. .

    In the early 1980s, Congress authorized the FAA to establish on-site meteorologist positions following a Southern Airways accident at New Hope, Georgia, in 1977, after the FAA was not in compliance. able to share weather information with flight crews in a timely manner.

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