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If it was up to you, would YOU recommend the REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT of AWOS ?

Sorry I missed this. If I was still investigating I would probably be more up to speed with this system and have seen a developed pattern. My preference is for human metro guys so I can kill them if they screw me. I fail to see the sense in automating a process in a critical area like this when there are obvious qualified humans. I don't think it makes fiscal sense to replace a metro guy with a very expensive system that still needs a human to calibrate and fix it. Where's the savings?

Before I retired, AWOS was to cut manning cost of Weather Personnel,
and to be added to the Air Traffic Controllers' "ADDITIONAL DUTIES" at a lower priority than "Air Traffic Control Responsibilities".
That means that when manning gets short, or things get busy ... or both, ... AWOS works by itself without override and without supervision.
Most controllers hated it at the time, as if they didn't already have enough to do.
Air Traffic Controllers make more decisions in 6 seconds, than a lawyer makes in 6 months, and if the controller gets it wrong, then the lawyers are coming after him!

They say that the "savings" will come in the long run, when there are less cost for retirement expenses.
But HOW MANY WILL DIE to pay for that so-called "savings" ?