Cairns ATIS
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Cairns ATIS
Hi all, hope you enjoy the new computerised ATIS transmission in Cairns. It will also mean that ATC will not be required to give a time check with the taxi clearance, but that may take a little time to get out of the habit of.
Cheers,
P-W
Cheers,
P-W
Bottums Up
I
hope
it's
not
like
the
Dar
win
ATIS
which
is
so
slow
one
al
most
goes
to
sleep
wait
ing
for
it
to
finish.
As
well
as
trunc
ating
some
words
so
that
if
one
antic
ipates
one
is
sure
to
get
it
wrong.
hope
it's
not
like
the
Dar
win
ATIS
which
is
so
slow
one
al
most
goes
to
sleep
wait
ing
for
it
to
finish.
As
well
as
trunc
ating
some
words
so
that
if
one
antic
ipates
one
is
sure
to
get
it
wrong.
I hope they still program in the funny stuff such as I heard the other week (done by MK I think, re WIP) 'Men with tools in hand in the undershoot of rwy 15' ...
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Guess the people who have had to record it will be rightly happy, but a sad day for me :-( It was always the first heads-up of the day as to who was on atc/gnd so we could make the taxi calls appropriately :-))
What will it say the next time there's a tower fire ? You better still do "men with tools in hand", and the other gems we like to hear !
What will it say the next time there's a tower fire ? You better still do "men with tools in hand", and the other gems we like to hear !
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Maybe I'm just a deaf b@stard but i swear our old mate Stephen Hawking said "I'm the morning DJ" on information Tango this morning. Playing around with the new toy guys? 
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Had me finish the day ROFLMAO. Sounded like a MEXICAN version of the old TV show Perfect Matches robot Dextor, especially when it gave the vis,
"... keelomeeeeetors veesabiility".
Will certainly miss the personalities but that was a gem.
"... keelomeeeeetors veesabiility".
Will certainly miss the personalities but that was a gem.
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Ok, everyone else has gone quiet, so I'll say it ...
After two weeks of listening to the alternate versions of the electronically generated voice and the human-recorded-words-stitched-together they're both total rubbish. My el cheapo pc is light years ahead in generating understandable English words and then putting them together in a way that sounds vaguely normal.
In 10 minutes the other day I heard three native English speakers tell Ground they didn't know which ATIS they'd received, or have a guess and get it wrong. We do get the occasional non-native English speaker at Cairns, how do they deal with this ? Badly, let me tell you !
I'm guessing that the wonderful people in Cairns ATC had this lame "technology" forced on them from Canberra. Send it back in a box, I say !
After two weeks of listening to the alternate versions of the electronically generated voice and the human-recorded-words-stitched-together they're both total rubbish. My el cheapo pc is light years ahead in generating understandable English words and then putting them together in a way that sounds vaguely normal.
In 10 minutes the other day I heard three native English speakers tell Ground they didn't know which ATIS they'd received, or have a guess and get it wrong. We do get the occasional non-native English speaker at Cairns, how do they deal with this ? Badly, let me tell you !
I'm guessing that the wonderful people in Cairns ATC had this lame "technology" forced on them from Canberra. Send it back in a box, I say !
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I suspect it's the FNQers trying for a little individuality. Of the half dozen times I've been through since the change, there's been an A-merican, a Mexican, a woman, a male. The Mexican seems most prolific. 
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Never mind the ATIS, how about getting that Flow control computer to work so you can stop stuffing everyone around with this "Go fast, now slow down, now go fast, nope slow down." crap. Speeding up inside 30 to run ain't going to make a poofteenth of difference to the arrival time. The going fast bit needs to happen earlier.
Maybe the flow hasn't turned up for work for a while.
Maybe the flow hasn't turned up for work for a while.
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PS not for those easily offended by naughty words
, or deeply christian folk, or PC persons. Of course this is aviation, so none of those warnings apply cos we're all hard bastards...
