SCT&VR...goodday.
As for KUL, I was told, met office sends weather data to tower thru some digital link.
an alarm is triggered in the tower and the Ctler in charge for weather inputs has to
manually feed in the data into another system (which is totally independent from the weather dept.) Then it goes on the air via a digital voice.
If the met office delays 5 mins you wud probably get it 10 mins later ( i guess).
As for SZB, the methodology seems to be a bit better.
The met office feeds the data directly into the ATIS system. Then again if he/she (the met officer) delays 10mins, it will be just like KUL.
VR....thanks for your suggestion...will forward to the Pengarah KLIA Tower (to prepare a budget paper).
FYI even the ATCC gets the weather in a delayed manner . Sometimes the pilots tell us the latest QNH to us. What are friends for!!
