John McMurdo Posted March 6, 2022 at 08:30 PM Posted March 6, 2022 at 08:30 PM I find that most of the time if there is no ATIS transmission at any given airport, then I can use information on the metar website to figure out which runways are in use, but it does not give any information about which ones for arrival and which for departure. Is there another source where I can find ATIS information for specific airports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liesel Downes Posted March 6, 2022 at 10:36 PM Posted March 6, 2022 at 10:36 PM an ATIS on VATSIM requires someone to be controlling the airport as well. You can find IRL ATIS though for the US at least https://datis.clowd.io/ Australia has twitter bots for the majors that post the IRL ATIS. Liesel Downes she/her/hers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Rider Posted March 7, 2022 at 12:37 AM Posted March 7, 2022 at 12:37 AM https://datis.clowd.io/ This will give you an ATIS for several US airports that are larger (Class C or Class B). Otherwise, just use the METAR data and choose the runway that most suits your aircraft performance needs. I'm not sure how other controllers handle this when they're operating top-down, but I do try to issue current weather and an expected runway/approach to aircraft going into a controlled field for which I have no ATIS running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Christie Posted March 7, 2022 at 02:15 AM Posted March 7, 2022 at 02:15 AM Generally use the runway with the most head wind, this is covered in my.vatsim.net > Leaning Centre > Aviation Skills > Runway Selection If you have charts and they list the preffered runway modes, for calm winds. As you can see the most preffered mode for YSSY is Oppisite direction operations. Kirk Christie - VATPAC C3 VATPAC Undercover ATC Agent Worldflight Perth 737-800 Crew Member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Teague Posted March 7, 2022 at 11:09 AM Posted March 7, 2022 at 11:09 AM also theres a chance the irl audio atis is available on https://www.liveatc.net/ at smaller airports without d-atis in the usa, there are sometimes phone numbers to their manually recorded atis you can find in the chart supplement (eg. kpsp is 760-327-2770) and if all else fails, just look at flightaware or fr24 and see which direction the planes are going irl My P3D freeware default airport updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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