Your company rules regarding required hourly weather...

[OneBadLT123]

I just don't understand why their can't be a universal exception to the temp or altimeter setting being missing. I don't know if I have ever seen a significant difference in altimeter or temperature settings between airports that were within a relatively short distance of each other. It's frustrating to take a delay on a flight for something like this. Seems like different rules and exceptions apply depending on your FSDO, even though we are all 121 carriers.

Now at the old, old carrier (my first place) we couldn't leave either. If the temp, altimeter and even visibility was missing we needed to have an on site weather observer or the flight got delayed, or canceled. This was quite common flying to small airports in North Dakota and the UP of Michigan and what not.

 

[dispatchguy]

From what I understand, the new OpSpecs A010 that comes out soon is going to mandate that there can be no missing elements from any automated report.

Now will the reliability of the Asos at BFE be any better? What are you smokin'

 

[AntiJedi]

Now will the reliability of the Asos at BFE be any better?

I think that the airport in Brownfield, TX would first need an ASOS in order to answer that question.

 

[NoApu]

From what I understand, the new OpSpecs A010 that comes out soon is going to mandate that there can be no missing elements from any automated report.

Now will the reliability of the Asos at BFE be any better? What are you smokin'

I haven't heard that no METAR can have missing elements but I have heard that some or all of the exceptions may be going away.