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The Civil Aviation (Air Traffic Services) Regulations
66. Automatic terminal information service (voice or data link)
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
66. Automatic terminal information service (voice or data link)
(1)Whenever Voice-automatic terminal information service or Data ink-automatic terminal information service is provided—(a)the information communicated shall relate to a single aerodrome;(b)the information communicated shall be updated immediately a significant change occurs;(c)the preparation and dissemination of the automatic terminal information service message shall be the responsibility of the air traffic services;(d)individual automatic terminal information service messages shall be identified by a designator in the form of a letter of the International Civil Aviation Organization spelling alphabet and designators assigned to consecutive automatic terminal information service message shal Ibein alphabetical order;(e)aircraft shall acknowledge receipt of the information upon establishing communication with the Air Traffic Services unit providing approach control service or the aerodrorne control tower, as appropriate;(f)the appropriate Air Traffic Services unit shall, when replying to the message in subregulation (e) or, in the case of arriving aircraft, at such other time as may be prescribed by the appropriate Air Traffic Services Authority, provide the aircraft with the current altimeter setting; and(g)the meteorological information shall be extracted from the local meteorological routine or special report.(2)The automatic terminal information service messages shall indicate that the relevant weather information will be given on initial contact with the appropriate Air Traffic Services unit when rapidly changing meteorological conditions make it inadvisable to include a weather report in the automatic terminal information service.(3)Information contained in a current automatic terminal information service, the receipt of which has been acknowledged the aircraft concerned, need not be included in a directed transmission to the aircraft, with the exception of the altimeter setting, which shall be provided in accordance with subregulation (l)(f).(4)If an aircraft acknowledges receipt of an automatic terminal information service that is no longer current, any element of information that needs updating shall be transmitted to the aircraft without delay.(5)Contents of automatic terminal information service shall be kept as brief as possible and information additional to that specified in Regulations 67, 68 and 69 shall only be included when justified in exceptional circumstances.