The ATC Collection
Weather

In this attempt to provide for a more realistic simulation of real life flight operations, I have made my own ATIS broadcasts, using real ATIS information obtained by phone (most major airports have an ATIS broadcast available by phone, so pilots can be briefed before they leave for a destination), including the actual phonetic alpha character used at the time, and extracts to provide for real weather on the dates of the flights.  You should also tune into your destination ATIS at least 20 nm inbound, to get actual conditions.  What might be attractive is to pause the simulation and create the actual weather yourself (all ATIS broadcasts have a visibility field, which allows FS5.1 users to make use of this facility), thereby landing in real conditions.  You may also wish to create actual weather conditions for take-off and the en-route segments.  To enable the latter to be performed, I have included in the mail-out material data which is sourced from the NWS at the time of the flight, including Terminal Observations (FA), Terminal Forecasts (FT) and Winds Aloft. These are further explained in the mail-out, with recommended weather generation settings.

Since the flights SQL_TVL and FAT_HWD are both VFR, are not to be flown in cloud, and also as both are "scenic" flights, I have ommitted all weather data and ATIS frequemcies from these flights.

As well, I found that obtaining 2 frequencies in the San Francisco area for ATIS (for the flights SLC_SFO and SFO_DFW), I have used the default ATIS- this will change with any weather you generate.  My presumption is that the Bay Area is so cluttered with ATC and ATIS frequencies already (some from other ATC flights, which I have in my FS5\Scenery directory), that taking up "radio spectrum) for my ATIS becomes meaningless. 

