Jeddah ATIS---Illegible and Incomprehensible
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Jeddah ATIS---Illegible and Incomprehensible
Cheap and nasty! Can't even understand it when parked on the ramp at JED. What is the matter with the owners/management of this so-called International Airport. Please rectify weather reporting to best US/UK standards as soon as possible. Seriously.
Poor show, you know.
Poor show, you know.
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I quit flying out of Jeddah last June...flew there starting in '78. It has ALWAYS been worthless...even worse than worthless, able to be mis-read. Complaints haven't worked for 25 years, and I expect another 25 years of potential mis-reading of QNH, wind, temp, vis. Sometimes Atis is 5-6 hours old. Idiocy; just has to be worked around.
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Cheap and nasty! Can't even understand it when parked on the ramp at JED. What is the matter with the owners/management of this so-called International Airport. Please rectify weather reporting to best US/UK standards as soon as possible. Seriously.
Poor show, you know.
Poor show, you know.
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Riyadh's no better; they (Riyadh) always used to transmit a Volmet on 126.4 which was far more readable (before TOD) but that seems to have stopped this service recently.
