FSS is an air traffic facility that provides pilot briefings, enroute communications, and VFR search-and-rescue services, assists lost aircraft and aircraft in emergency situations, relays ATC clearances, originates Notices to Air Missions, broadcasts aviation weather and NAS information, receives and processes IFR flight plans, and monitors NAVAIDs. In addition, FSS takes weather observations, issues airport advisories, advises customs and immigration of transborder flights, and provides En Route Flight Advisory Service (Flight Watch) (in Alaska only).
FSS is an air traffic facility that provides pilot briefings, enroute communications, and VFR search-and-rescue services, assists lost aircraft and aircraft in emergency situations, relays ATC clearances, originates Notices to Air Missions, broadcasts aviation weather and NAS information, receives and processes IFR flight plans, and monitors NAVAIDs. In addition, FSS takes weather observations, issues airport advisories, advises customs and immigration of transborder flights, and provides En Route Flight Advisory Service (Flight Watch) (in Alaska only).