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    Setting up an ATIS with Audio for VATSIM

    in Audio For VATSIM

    Posted · Edited by Richard Quigley

    Greg,

    It saves the .gz file wherever you want to save it. 

    You create the facility and the configuration profiles for it with the Facility Configuration interface.  Then if you export the facility the app makes an .xml file and zips it up in a .gz file for you to save anywhere you like and import if you need to or to send to some one else.  

    The .xml file in the vATIS directory appears to contain all the configurations you've created.  (Looking at mine)

    I suppose you could create a .gz file for every facility you control.  However, for the sake of consistency, this ought to be done by the Ops people to ensure the template is uniform across the FIR.  Nevertheless, unless the bot wants to play nice the app is only another "nice if it worked" toy.

    I've attached the two I've made.  No guarantees they are 100% pusser!  When you find your own save it before you import mine.  Merry Christmas!

    vATIS Facility - Melbourne (YMML).gz

    vATIS Facility - ADELAIDE (YPAD).gz

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    Setting up an ATIS with Audio for VATSIM

    in Audio For VATSIM

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Sean Harrison said:

    Maybe only thing that I can’t seem to work is the QNH units.  I’ve posted on vATIS support,  but not confident there is a way to convert units within the app.

    I’m quite surprised we haven’t been using it widely before.  The ability to add your CASA abbreviations into the contradictions makes it almost 100%.

    Sean,  it's sort of like the Aussie girls voice.

    In the Facility Configuration, Configuration Tab tick the Use International Format.  

    Do you have a link to the CASA abbreviations?

    Setting up an ATIS with Audio for VATSIM

    in Audio For VATSIM

    Posted · Edited by Richard Quigley

    You create a FACILITY and then configure profiles for that FACILITY.

    The Facility Configuration builds a profile for that FACILITY.  You can have a profile for each runway or combinations of runways and runways and approaches.

    The configurator builds (I think) an xml file and then zips it up as a .gz  under the facility name.  You can then add or delete profiles from this file.

    Here's a sample:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <Facility xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" ID="YPAD" Name="Adelaide Int'l" UpdatedOn="2019-12-20T17:35:18.8222+10:30">
      <Frequency>34500</Frequency>
      <InformationDisplaySystemEndpoint />
      <MetarObservation ObservationTimeValue="0" Enable="false" />
      <MagneticVariation MagneticVariationValue="0" Option="None" />
      <Contractions />
      <Profiles>
        <Profile Name="YPAD">
          <AirportConditions>EXPECT VIS APCH RWY 23</AirportConditions>
          <Notams>FROM 0830 ZULU 14010KT</Notams>
          <AtisTemplate>[FACILITY] ATIS INFORMATION [ATIS_CODE]. [OBS_TIME]. [FULL_WX_STRING]. [ARPT_COND]. [NOTAMS].[ON FIRST CONTACT WITH +YPAD TWR</AtisTemplate>
        </Profile>
        <Profile Name="YPAD23">
          <AirportConditions>EXPECT VISUAL APPROACH, RWY 23 FOR ARRS AND DEPS</AirportConditions>
          <Notams />
          <AtisTemplate>[FACILITY] ATIS INFORMATION [ATIS_CODE]. [ARPT_COND]. [OBS_TIME]. [FULL_WX_STRING]. [NOTAMS]. [ON FIRST CONTACT WITH +YPAD GROUND OR APCH NOTIFY RECEIPT OF [ATIS_CODE].</AtisTemplate>
        </Profile>
        <Profile Name="YPAD05">
          <AirportConditions />
          <Notams />
          <AtisTemplate>[FACILITY] TERMINAL INFORMATION [ATIS_CODE]. RWY 05 FOR ARRS/DEPS. [SURFACE_WIND]. [PREVAILING_VISIBILITY]. [PRESENT_WEATHER]. [CLOUDS]. [TEMP]. [DEW].  [PRESSURE]. [ARPT_COND]. [NOTAMS]. ON FIRST CONTACT WITH [FACILITY] GROUND, TOWER, APPROACH) NOTIFY RECEIPT OF [ATIS_CODE]. </AtisTemplate>
        </Profile>
      </Profiles>
      <UseInternationalFormat>true</UseInternationalFormat>
      <VoiceRecordEnabled>false</VoiceRecordEnabled>
      <VoiceName>Australian</VoiceName>
      <VoiceGender>Female</VoiceGender>
      <Notams />
      <AirportConditions />
    </Facility>

    I think the profile YPAD05 is pretty close to VATPAC requirements.  (If it works!)

    Haven't tested this at all yet.

     

     

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    Removal of certain SIDs at Sydney

    in Airspace

    Posted

    I favour dragging young William Teale, as quietly as possibly down those well worn, slime and blood covered steps that lead to the  VATPAC Operations Department's Document Maintenance Faciity.. More famiiarly and terrifying known by  the acronym: VODDocMaFac.

    There, he will be kept producing, at a relentless and unremitting pace, update after  update after update.

    I don't know why we keep loosing updaters.  Perhaps it's the pizza and Fanta diet?

    Anyway, iit's damnedhard to type on a tabldt in bed eating cheese  spread out of the bottle !

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    Work in progress ...

    in Controller Clients

    Posted · Edited by Richard Quigley

    I can see that I did know about this!

    Please be tolerant,  my meds sometimes take me away for a few days at a time.

    They don't always put me back where I think I was!

    Yes, we moved and I had a chemo session that week.  Pretty much out of it.

    Work in progress ...

    in Controller Clients

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    "I'm afraid I have some bad news. TAAATSMod is dead. The original code has vanished, never to see the light of day again. There will never be an update.

    However, despair not! For all those application crashes over the years have not been in vain. Besides lurking here, in my spare time I have been developing a TAAATSMod replacement. It's more than a plugin. It's its own standalone client."

     

    But note: Due to Jake's real life commitments the replacement  (for Kirk's benefit) he's working on started in 2016.

    At the current pace we'll likely be Euroscope users for some time to come.

    Of course he could also pop it out of the box, fully fledged and ready to fly tomorrow

    Work in progress ...

    in Controller Clients

    Posted · Edited by Richard Quigley
    grammatical correction

    Why Kirk?  I've been aware of that post since it was first posted.

    I cried real tears when Jake told us that the original coding had vanished into electronic oblivion,  never to be again be seen by human eyes.

    I do know that  he, Jake, has been  working on a New and improved version.  If Mr Cann can do a similar thing all well and good..

    My "clunky" comment is by way of my own personal preferences . Parts of TAAATS/3.1 I like, others I do not.  But that is not in any way to be laid at the feet of our designers as they are, as best they can, trying to replicate an existing system which has its own design problems.

    I hopeJake and Darren both proceed productively .  Maybe even collaborate.  That might not be a bad thjng.

     

    Where to eat in Adelaide?

    in General

    Posted · Edited by Richard Quigley

    Arkaba Hotel
     
     
    • Address: 150 Glen Osmond Road Fullarton, Adelaide
    • Good value, good food, sports pub.
    The Edinburgh Hotel & Cellars
     
    • Address: 1-7 High Street, Mitcham South Australia 5062
    •  
      Windy Point Restaurant
       
      • Address: Windy Point Lookout, Belair Road, Belair South Australia 5052
      • Phone: 08 8278 8255
      • Price for two: Over $150
      • Reservations: Reservations
      • Website: windypoint.com.au
      •  
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    TWR - It's all in the DEL

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    I would comment that it is would be much easier to readback quickly when there are two pilots on board as in RW. One concentrates on onboard stuff whilst the other can quickly jot down the instructions for a prompt readback.

    Absolutely 100% unarguably correct Dan!  But some can manage it.  It is , however, a consummation devoutly to be wished for!

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