What is Atis?
1.
Automated Terminal Information System. Either a looped recording or a voice synthesis system which plays a looping audio stream over a radio frequency for the purpose of giving weather and other operational information to Pilots. Information can include runways in use, wind direction and speed, cloud level, and any other important information a pilot needs to know. Can also refer to the information given itself.
1: What does the ATIS say?
2:(Automated looped recording) "Sydney Terminal Information India. Arrivals and Departures, runway 25. Men with Hand tools operating to the edge of runway 34 left. Winds 280 at 20 knots, gusts to 30 knots. Crosswind maximum 19 knots. Visibility Greater than 10 kilometers, Reduced to 5000 metres in passing showers. Cloud, Few at 800 feet, scattered at 2000 feet, broken overcast at 4500 feet. Temperature 20 celcius, QNH 1017 millibars. On first contact with Sydney Approach or Ground, notify receipt of India." (recording loops to begining again).
2a: Sydney Approach Qantas 462 descending 8000 through 10,000 visual on top, have ATIS India.
2.
Noun: A person who talks all of the time. Usually a male that connot control the verbal diarrhea. If he were a female, which could but up for debate, he would be called a
That guy talks so much he is like listening to ATIS. You can put the phone down and pick it up 3 hours later and he will be saying the same thing.
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