Originally Posted by
Eau de Boeing
Hear hear Pizza...
7 hour flight into a large airport in the Midlands and having to take the ATIS from Heathrow and Manchester and split the difference when it's snowing and right on NPA minimums is no fun.
You only pick up the ATIS on VHF as you are descending through the London TMA, flying with a new trainee who's sometimes 300 miles behind the aircraft.
Surely they could spend some of the money they saved bending the ILS when it rains on a simple D-ATIS.
Normal DOC for an ATIS is 60nm; they can usually be heard well over this. D-ATIS is a different matter as it's only supposed to be audible on the ground within the airport boundary.
Sure you're tuning the correct one?