BRI - This & That WARNING
Here's an email I haven't had a reply to from BRI ATC of recent:
Dear BRI ATC,
I am an airline pilot often using your services at or
overhead BRS.
On your ATISs there are often "warnings" at the end of
the transmission. For instance: Gale Warning Current,
Snow Warning Current, Fog Warning Current, Frost Warning Current
Now I don't recall, or indeed none of my colleagues
do, having learnt about such "warnings" in our days at
college. Nor do we recall any older or indeed recent
NOTAMS that explain or confirm the existence of such
expressions.
Further to this. Could you also explain what are these
warnings meant to achieve. For instance are they there
to prevent someone from 'wanting' to come to BRS due
to the "warned" condition? Or just to inform them in
case they haven't bothered to check the weather before
taking off?
I have now been flying for almost 20 years
commercially, but have never come across this in any
other European Airport.
Please, if there's is anyone upstairs could you
explain to me so I can then pass it on to my
colleagues, as to what these messages are all about,
after all we might learn something we have missed out
on.
Regards