1. Automatic Terminal Information Servis A T I S
Corp. Ondřej Mach
22-4PIL

2. Content Importance Structure and phrases Sample messages text
Conclusion

3. Importance continuous broadcast Allocated frequency
Source of essential information
Weather
Runway in use
Visibility
Restrictions

4. Structure of ATIS information
GOOD AFTERNOON TURANY ATIS INFORMATION OSCAR VOR APPROACH RUNWAY IN USE 10 RWY IS WET TRANSITION LEVEL 50 RWY 09 GRASS IS CLOSED METAR TURANY ISSUED AT 15,30 WIND 160 DEGREES 3 KNOTS VISIBILITY 2 THOUSAND 3 HUNDRED METRES LIGHT SNOW MIST OVERCAST 7 HUNDRED FEET TEMPERATURE MINUS 0 DEWPOINT MINUS 2 QNH 1023 HECTOPASCALS NOSIG YOU HAVE RECEIVED ATIS INFORMATION OSCAR
Identification data
Airport Information
Weather Information

5. Operational Information Wind Visibility or RVR Significant weather
Structure
Example
Airport name
Information Code
Time (UTC)
Runway in use
Runway condition
Operational Information
Wind
Visibility or RVR
Significant weather
Good Afternoon Turany ATIS
Information Oscar
1530
Runway in use 10
Runway is wet
Transition level 50, RWY 09 CLS
160 degrees 3 knots
Visibility 2300 metres
Light snow, mist

6. Height of base over runway Temperature Dewpoint QNH (QFE) Trend
Structure
Example
Cloud cover
Height of base over runway
Temperature
Dewpoint
QNH (QFE)
Trend
Overcast
7 hundred feet
Minus 0
Minus 2
1023 hPa
nosig

7. Phrases Runway Condotion
WET / DAMP/ WATER PATCHES / FLOODED or SNOW REMOVED (length and width) or TREATED, or COVERED WITH PATCHES OF DRY SNOW (or WET SNOW, or COMPACTED SNOW, or SLUSH, or FROZEN SLUSH, or ICE, or ICE UNDERNEATH, or ICE AND SNOW, or SNOWDRIFTS, or FROZEN RUTS AND RIDGES)

8. Vocabulary

9. Phrases Visibility Used as hundreds and thousands kilometers
Maximum 10 km
CAVOK [kav ou kej]
„Ceiling and Visibility OK“
No clouds below 5000 meters
No Cb+Tc
Visibilty>10km
No precipitation and thunderstorm

10. Example GOOD MORNING TURANY ATIS INFORMATION PAPA 0830
VOR APPROACH RUNWAY IN USE 10 TRANSITION LEVEL 50
RWY 09 GRASS IS CLOSED
METAR TURANY ISSUED AT 08,30
WIND 060 DEGREES 12 KNOTS
VISIBILITY CAVOK
TEMPERATURE 1 DEWPOINT MINUS 8
QNH 1025 HECTOPASCALS
NOSIG
YOU HAVE RECEIVED ATIS INFORMATION PAPA

11. Example
GOOD MORNING RUZYNE ATIS INFORMATION PAPA ILS APPROACH RUNWAY IN USE 24 RWY 24 IS DAMP CONTAMINATION 50 PERCENT TRANSITION LEVEL METAR PRAHA ISSUED AT 10,30 WIND 360 DEGREES 6 KNOTS VISIBILITY 10 KILOMETRES OR MORE SCATTERED 2 THOUSAND 7 HUNDRED FEET TEMPERATURE 6 DEWPOINT MINUS 1 QNH 1036 HECTOPASCALS NOSIG YOU HAVE RECEIVED ATIS INFORMATION PAPA

12. Example GOOD MORNING RUZYNE ATIS INFORMATION KILO 0901
ILS APPROACH RUNWAY IN USE 24 RWYS ARE WET TRANSITION LEVEL 50
METAR PRAHA ISSUED AT 09,00
WIND 250 DEGREES 10 KNOTS VISIBILITY 4 THOUSAND 5 HUNDRED METRES LIGHT RAIN MIST
SCATTERED 1 THOUSAND FEET OVERCAST 3 THOUSAND 3 HUNDRED FEET
TEMPERATURE 3 DEWPOINT 2
QNH 1016 HECTOPASCALS
TREND BECOMING VISIBILITY 7 KILOMETRES LIGHT RAIN
YOU HAVE RECEIVED ATIS INFORMATION KILO

13. Example GOOD MORNING TURANY ATIS INFORMATION OSCAR 0730
ILS APPROACH RUNWAY IN USE 28
RUNWAY CONDITIONS RUNWAY 28 CLEARED TO WIDTH 50 METRES RIME OR FROST COVERED 100 PERCENT CONTAMINATION BRAKING ACTION 54, 56, 60, BY SFH
TRANSITION LEVEL 50
TAXIWAY CONDITIONS RIME OR FROST COVERED 100 PERCENT CONTAMINATION BRAKING ACTION MEDIUM APRONS CONDITIONS RIME OR FROST COVERED 100 PERCENT CONTAMINATION BRAKING ACTION MEDIUM TWY E AND TWY A BETWEEN TWY E AND THRESHOLD RWY 28 ICE BA POOR
METAR TURANY ISSUED AT 07,30 WIND VARIABLE 1 KNOT
VISIBILITY 10 KILOMETRES OR MORE
SCATTERED 2 THOUSAND 6 HUNDRED FEET
TEMPERATURE MINUS 1 DEWPOINT MINUS 2
QNH 1029 HECTOPASCALS
NOSIG YOU HAVE RECEIVED ATIS INFORMATION OSCAR

14. Conclusion Pilot can hear the information several times
Decreases the broadcast traffic