Automatic terminal information service
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Sep 20, 2026
TomHOST
So it doesn't make any sense for us to continue to fly.
TomHOST
When it comes to ATIS, it's a good habit to get into.
TomHOST
Always write down your ATIS.
TomHOST
Make sure that even if the winds are calm, still write something in there.
JasonGUEST
So from the ATIS, I wrote down that this is information kilo, temperature is 22, altimeter settings 30.19, and 2, 1, left and right are in use.
JasonGUEST
Other stuff that you think I should have written down? Did you write down the winds? Calm.
TomHOST
Okay.
TomHOST
So when you go back to look, if you don't have a zero in there or you write calm or whatever notation you write, you won't know, did I actually get the weather? Did I actually get the winds or did I forget and leave it blank?
speaker_11NARRATOR
The third place to review the five Ps is at the midpoint of the flight.
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Often, pilots may wait until the automated terminal information service, ATIS, is in range to check weather.
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Yet at this point in the flight, many good options have already passed behind the aircraft and pilot.
speaker_11NARRATOR
Additionally, fatigue and low altitude hypoxia serve to rob the pilot of much of his or her energy by the end of a long and tiring flight day.
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Also, the process of a verbal briefing, which can happen whether or not passengers are aboard Can help the PIC in the decision-making process.
speaker_11NARRATOR
For example, assume a pilot provides a lone passenger a briefing of the forecast landing weather before departure.
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When the automatic terminal information service, ATIS, is picked up, the weather has significantly changed.
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The discussion of this forecast change can lead the pilot to reexamine his or her activities and decision-making.
TowerHOST
I'm Tower.
TowerHOST
This is ATIS on Radio Hangar.
TowerHOST
Let's work through what's moving in aviation this week.
TowerHOST
The FAA controller workforce story isn't new, but it got sharper this summer when the agency published its latest staffing analysis.
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TowerHOST
They are the decisions that keep you talking about the flight afterward.
TowerHOST
Information today comes from the FAA's Controller Workforce Report, NATCA staffing documentation, AOPA's G one hundred UL fuel tracking coverage, and Aviation Week for the MAX ten certification status.
TowerHOST
More at radiohangar.com. That's ATIS for this midday.
TowerHOST
Safe skies.
TowerHOST
The communications section rounds out the picture.
TowerHOST
Tower, ground, clearance, delivery, ATIS, operations, company frequencies, all of it listed in one place.
TowerHOST
At a complex field with multiple ground control frequencies or multiple tower sectors, having the full picture consolidated before you ever open the approach plate makes your brief more complete and your cockpit workload lo- workload woah.
TowerHOST
Let me bring this back to the transition question, because that’s really the heart of today’s segment.
TowerHOST
Some approaches, solid time under the foggles.
TowerHOST
You dial up the ATIS frequency.
TowerHOST
The recording is already mid-sentence when you tune in.
TowerHOST
You catch the wind, you get the altimeter setting, you hear the active runway, and then at the end, the identifier information Sierra.
TowerHOST
I'm Tower on Radio Hangar, and that scenario is not invented to make a point.
TowerHOST
It is the shape of a real and recurring problem, and AOPA wrote about it this week in their training and safety tip series.
TowerHOST
The lesson is this: when you listen to ATIS, you need to listen to the entire broadcast, not most of it, not the part you caught when you tuned in, all of it, from the facility name at the top to the identifier at the bottom.
TowerHOST
That sounds obvious when you say it plainly, and yet AOPA keeps publishing reminders about it.
TowerHOST
I'm Tower.
TowerHOST
You're listening to ATIS.
TowerHOST
What moved onto that ramp this week was the Ravn-X, built by a company called Avum.
TowerHOST
It's a program that had been running with limited public visibility for several years.
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TowerHOST
The Ravinex taxi tests were coordinated with the airport.
TowerHOST
You were not unknowingly sharing a movement area with an autonomous 80-foot vehicle without any notification available through normal channels.
TowerHOST
The NODAM system, airport advisories, and ATIS carry this information when unusual operations are authorized.
TowerHOST
That system worked as it's supposed to.
speaker_8NARRATOR
The third place to review the five Ps is at the midpoint of the flight.
speaker_8NARRATOR
Often, pilots may wait until the automated terminal information service, ATIS, is in range to check weather.
speaker_8NARRATOR
Yet at this point in the flight, many good options have already passed behind the aircraft and pilot.
speaker_8NARRATOR
Additionally, fatigue and low altitude hypoxia serve to rob the pilot of much of his or her energy by the end of a long and tiring flight day.
37 MINS LATER
speaker_8NARRATOR
Also, the process of a verbal briefing, which can happen whether or not passengers are aboard, can help the PIC in the decision-making process.
speaker_8NARRATOR
For example, assume a pilot provides a lone passenger a briefing of the forecast landing weather before departure.
speaker_8NARRATOR
When the automatic terminal information service, ATIS, is picked up, the weather has significantly changed.
speaker_8NARRATOR
The discussion of this forecast change can lead the pilot to re-examine his or her activities and decision-making.
DennisHOST
They just implemented SmartAS in their tower to relieve some of the burden.
DennisHOST
you know, today when the pilot or the controllers need to update the new ATIS information, they actually are recording that they're actually having to take a couple minutes out and go and read you the weather and any of the NOTAMs and things like that.
DennisHOST
And so it can take five minutes for them to cut a new ATIS.
DennisHOST
And so that's five minutes that they're not controlling traffic at an already busy airport, or you need to have, you know, another controller just to kind of handle all of that type of stuff.
DennisHOST
Well, AI and computer-generated voices are getting better and better.
DennisHOST
And so somebody finally said, you know, we can just record this.
DennisHOST
We just type in the NOTAMs and what we want to have on our messages, and it automatically connects to the automated weather system that's in place at the airport.
DennisHOST
And now the computer goes and creates a new ATIS reporting at the top of the hour.
TowerHOST
It is, in a word, complex, and for pilots in the region, Manassas Regional Airport has long been the answer.
TowerHOST
I'm Tower, and this is ATIS on radio.
TowerHOST
Hangar, let's talk about what's coming.
TowerHOST
The Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, has authorized commercial air service at Manassas Regional Airport in Prince William County, Virginia.
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TowerHOST
For the pilot planning to fly into Hotel Echo Foxtrot in the near term, practical preparation looks like this.
TowerHOST
Pull the current airport diagram and familiarize yourself with the layout, because it will change as commercial infrastructure comes in.
TowerHOST
Check the ATIS before every arrival, not just for weather, but for any active construction or operational advisories.
TowerHOST
Monitor NOTAMs diligently.
NickHOST
The flight was at flight level 360 or 36,000 feet over Germany.
NickHOST
When the crew began their approach briefing, this included listening to the latest ATIS, or Automated Terminal Information System, for the Schiphol Airport.
NickHOST
This included everything from weather and NOTAMs and whatnot.
NickHOST
The first officer then reported during the briefing that runway 18R was in use for landing.
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