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A pilot reported there is no way to receive the current weather for 3b1 non-towered airport while airborne.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1762334 |
| Time | |
| Date | 202009 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | 3B1.Airport |
| State Reference | ME |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | IMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Retractable Gear |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 130 Flight Crew Total 16000 Flight Crew Type 4600 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
The automated weather is available with 5 clicks on the unicom frequency at 3b1 greenville; maine. The automated weather reported wind calm. The RNAV 14 instrument approach was used and there was an 18 knot tailwind on short final. This was not acceptable for a straight in landing. The approach had to be a circling approach to runway 32 or a missed approach. The automated weather does not appears on ads-B or on sirius xm weather in the cockpit. It does appear on foreflight which is not available in the air. This is a very serious safety issue. The weather should be available on airborne receivers such as xm or ads-B and the information must be correct. I believe that this represents an accident looking for a place to happen. Can this be fixed?
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A pilot reported there is no way to receive the current weather for 3B1 non-towered airport while airborne.
Narrative: The automated weather is available with 5 clicks on the Unicom Frequency at 3B1 Greenville; Maine. The automated weather reported wind calm. The RNAV 14 instrument approach was used and there was an 18 knot tailwind on short final. This was not acceptable for a straight in landing. The approach had to be a circling approach to runway 32 or a missed approach. The automated weather does not appears on ADS-B or on Sirius XM weather in the cockpit. It does appear on Foreflight which is not available in the air. This is a very serious safety issue. The weather should be available on airborne receivers such as XM or ADS-B and the information must be correct. I believe that this represents an accident looking for a place to happen. Can this be fixed?
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.