ATIS

ATIS is the abbrevation for "Automatic Terminal Information Servis and is a information service for airports. Further information about the ATIS system itself can be found here. In this article here we want to concentrate on ATIS during virtual controller sessions in Austrian airspace.

On VATSIM we use voice and text ATIS. That means, that the ATIS on the VATSIM network can be received as text message or as continous voice on a special frequency, the ATIS frequency, which can be found on our airport information pages. The ATIS is provided by a controller logged on to the VATSIM network, preferrable the main controller for the specified airport (like the tower or approach controller).

Together with the controller software EuroScope we have a comfortable tool to create ATIS information for our pilots, because EuroScope does create voice and text ATIS messages. For further information on how to configure EuroScope to automatically build ATIS messages please vitis the EuroScope documentation. If you installed the [1], which can be found on the homepage of VACC Austria, everything should work out of the box.

EuroScope

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