Flying High
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Hi all,
I am an airline guy and noticed that in the USA, the ATIS is only changed once per hour at 7mins before the hour. In Australia it is re-issued whenever the conditions change.
Why is it only updated hourly? What about when the prevailing conditions change?
We had a flight go into LAX and the ATIS broadcast that 25L was closed but SOCAL said it was open, the crew assumed it was opened since the last ATIS update because we know that the ATIS is only updated hourly and would not be re-issued to remove the closed runway information.
Interestingly the SOCAL approach cleared our plane onto the 25L ILS then the Tower said nope, that one is closed and changed them over on final.
I am an airline guy and noticed that in the USA, the ATIS is only changed once per hour at 7mins before the hour. In Australia it is re-issued whenever the conditions change.
Why is it only updated hourly? What about when the prevailing conditions change?
We had a flight go into LAX and the ATIS broadcast that 25L was closed but SOCAL said it was open, the crew assumed it was opened since the last ATIS update because we know that the ATIS is only updated hourly and would not be re-issued to remove the closed runway information.
Interestingly the SOCAL approach cleared our plane onto the 25L ILS then the Tower said nope, that one is closed and changed them over on final.
