When ATC reads ATIS too fast?

[Cutlass1287]

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[ATRedneck]

I struck up a conversation with a tower guy in the waiting room while getting my medical a few years ago, and asked him the same question.

He said that some of the old ATIS machines have a tape loop that only gives them so much time to read the METAR, NOTAMs, etc., and sometimes with a lot of info the tape keeps cutting them off as they're recording it. So finally they get pissed at the machine and dictate it really fast.

 

[klhoard]

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Just bring it up on ACARS. You can even print it out and read it as many times as you like.
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[Thedude]

Wait till your are flying out of the country and the control reads the ATIS with a heavy (insert accent here) accent.
I have asked one of the controlers in JFK to give me the WX 'cause i couldn't understand the speed-talker on ATIS. The made a joke and gave the WX...no biggie. After that I never heard a speed-talker again.

Have you ever expereinced the gnd controllers in ORD or DFW during a push..dam....if i didnt already know what they were gonna say, I would have probably been lost.

 

[Pelican 10]

Hey cutlASS......shut the hell up !!!!!, why don't you get out of your flying suit, take off your flying helmet, unscrew your sweaty hands off of the yoke, un-strap your E6B off of your wrist........and LISTEN to what all these guys have to say because you still have a LOT to learn about flying !!!

 

[TheDogsBollocks]

I understand that sometimes the local controller gets busy and is therefore cramped for time, But...
Why do they sometimes read the ATIS too fast?? Is speed that necessary? I consider myself to be a fairly competent pilot, yet, with room to still learn. Going into ACK yesterday, the report was issued so fast that I couldn't even understand the phrase "Nantucket weather". It's even more of a distraction when the weather turns out to be low, which it was.
I don't think this is isolated to any airport or controller, just time of day and workload situations.
WhatdoyousaytothecontrollerswhentheygiveATIStooquickly? What'sthemostproperwaytotellATChowannoyingthatis?

I have more of an issue with an atis plus numerous notam's that's so long, I've flown over half a state by the time I have listened to it all!

 

[Cutlass1287]

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Sorry to ruffle your feathers guys, maybe I should have spent a few more seconds thinking before hitting the "quick reply" button.

 

[Pelican 10]

.........thats what I thought...........

 

[atrdriver]

I just check in and say "negative ATIS". When they ask if it's up I tell them yes, but it's not understandable.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Fast ATIS???? Sounds like VPS. Would have to listen 4 times just to get everything copied down.