<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1086624, May 2013

Dispatcher reports that several times a day the controlling wsi forecast gets knocked out of the dispatch program by the NWS forecast.

Attributes
ACN	1086624
Time
Date	201305
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Person 1
Function	Dispatcher
Qualification	Dispatch Dispatcher
Events
Anomaly	Other Dispatcher data error

Narrative:

Several times a day the controlling wsi [commercial weather service] forecast gets knocked out of [my display] by the NWS forecast. Uhma [commercial weather service] forecast was knocked out twice by NWS forecast today. All weather in our current systems should match and should show the controlling forecast. I have to call wsi and ask them to re-send the taf to get it back into [my display].

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Dispatcher reports that several times a day the controlling WSI forecast gets knocked out of the Dispatch program by the NWS forecast.

Narrative: Several times a day the controlling WSI [commercial weather service] forecast gets knocked out of [my display] by the NWS forecast. UHMA [commercial weather service] forecast was knocked out twice by NWS forecast today. All weather in our current systems should match and should show the controlling forecast. I have to call WSI and ask them to re-send the TAF to get it back into [my display].

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.