Gatwick Free ATIS question

[Morgan Davies]

Whenever I tune into what I "think" is Gatwick ATIS, I end up getting an ATIS for Southend Airport.

From what I have been able to find out from google maps, Southend Airport is about 63 miles NE of Gatwick.

My question is, why am I getting Southend airport ATIS when I am at Gatwick?

[Norman Dean]

Because they are the same frequency and FSX does not diminish the signal with distance as would happen in real life. However, I deliberately left the ATIS out of the file for Southend so that this conflict didn't occur, so where did you get Southend from?

Normn

[Morgan Davies]

Because they are the same frequency and FSX does not diminish the signal with distance as would happen in real life. However, I deliberately left the ATIS out of the file for Southend so that this conflict didn't occur, so where did you get Southend from?

Normn

I use FS9 and not FSX as you mentioned, my apologies for that oversight, but I am assuming it's the same problem in FS9

I am not sure what you mean by where I am getting Southend from? If you mean addon airports, I do not have any Southend Airport installed for FS9.

The only other London addon  I can think of, which I have installed, is called Heathrow building works, which is an addon which simulated the construction of T5 at Heathrow. I doubt that would cause a conflict, although I could be wrong.

[Morgan Davies]

I tried disabling the Heathrow building works scenery which I mentioned above, but to no avail.

Is there another AFCAD file I could with there FS9 version of EGKK free and see if that solves the problem?

If not, I guess I will have to learn to live with it 

[Norman Dean]

Hi Morgan,

If you have FS9 and no other add on for Southend then it is the default Southend that you are receiving. Unfortunately I do no know of any way in which you can stop this from happening. As with FSX I got around the problem by not including the ATIS service for Southend in the parts series.

The only option is to turn off the ATIS service at Gatwick.

Norman

[Morgan Davies]

Guess I will have to learn to live with it. It's not a major problem.

Thanks for the help.