Originally Posted by
Geoff Fairless
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the statement from Airservices that CASA had forbidden them to use the ICAO recognised term Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS).
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Probably because to comply with the ICAO definition of an AFIS, more local information is required to be available to ATC and provided to aircraft than Airservices is currently able to provide, other than Port Hedland.
ICAO: Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS)
Before Airservices shut down the Flight Service centres I believe that FS did provide remote AFIS/AFIZ services from those centres for some locations (Mildura and Broken Hill come to mind) and the relevant consoles were equipped with readouts of the local met data i.e. QNH, wind speed & direction, temperature etc. and a preferred runway would be nominated.