Originally Posted by sevenstrokeroll
I realize that VHF is VHF...but if you already have a VOR station built, in use and capable of ATIS transmission, doesn't it make sense to use it rather than build a seperate transmitter at addtional cost?
Yeah, it would *seem* that way on the face of it, but then why is it relatively uncommon? From that perspective, you'd think every airport wih a VOR would broadcast ATIS on the VOR instead of having a separate transmitter .