Solved ATIS always "Visual"
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Hi community
I’ve been doing some IMC / IFR training.
I’ve noticed that no matter how terrible the weather is, the ATIS has been always under “visual” and not “instrument”.
Is this a bug or what is the criteria to get ATIS to switch to “instrument” when the weather condition is in fact IMC -
Found it
Gunsan
Min Imc is 1,2 km visibility and 660 ft cloud elevation
Minimas for Black are 250m visi and 200ft clouds
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@Osprey said in ATIS always "Visual":
Hi community
I’ve been doing some IMC / IFR training.
I’ve noticed that no matter how terrible the weather is, the ATIS has been always under “visual” and not “instrument”.
Is this a bug or what is the criteria to get ATIS to switch to “instrument” when the weather condition is in fact IMCRead specific airport charts , the minima are in there
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@Mav-jp Thanks for your reply. I am fully aware of minima. I think you misunderstand my question. My question is for example, weather at Gunsan is cloud at 1000ft, visibility 1km, this is absolutely IMC condition and must fly IFR because you won’t see anything. However, if you switch to ATIS, the ATIS will tell you it’s “visual” condition and not instrument condition which is not in line with the actual condition. But, without a doubt a visibility of 1km is still above minima on the chart, which is 800m visibility. But above minima condition does not mean it’s “visual” condition. It is IMC and shall be instrument
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@Osprey said in ATIS always "Visual":
@Mav-jp Thanks for your reply. I am fully aware of minima. I think you misunderstand my question. My question is for example, weather at Gunsan is cloud at 1000ft, visibility 1km, this is absolutely IMC condition and must fly IFR because you won’t see anything. However, if you switch to ATIS, the ATIS will tell you it’s “visual” condition and not instrument condition which is not in line with the actual condition. But, without a doubt a visibility of 1km is still above minima on the chart, which is 800m visibility. But above minima condition does not mean it’s “visual” condition. It is IMC and shall be instrument
Minimas are for black conditions
There is a imc condition in the chart IIRC
What is it for gunsan ?
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Found it
Gunsan
Min Imc is 1,2 km visibility and 660 ft cloud elevation
Minimas for Black are 250m visi and 200ft clouds
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@Mav-jp Where can i find “IMC condition in the chart IIRC”?
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@Micro_440th Thank you Micro for checking. Your description is exactly what i’m referring to.
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okay the answer is simple
Many things at play here:
FIRST
ATIS is not tied yet with ATC files therefore does not know the minima of different airportsHow it works right now :
basically if weather is sunny or FAir : it will say except visual
if weather is poor or inclement it will say : expect instrument.
Has been that way from the start we introduced ATIS
SECOND point here : there is a bug in the code , probably introduced in 4.36 that makes it say Visual approach whatever weather type.
SO until the code is tied with ATC file and fixed
you can use the color which is based on the official color on international standard
use g_bUseATISColorCode
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@Mav-jp Thanks Mav!