Fai approach controller voiced concern regarding the issuance of a 'blanket' ATIS at eil that does n...

Narrative:

Seems that eil has created something called a 'blanket' ATIS. Apparently; this means they make one ATIS and advertise for several hours that their current weather can be received from ATC. A few of the problems with this are. 1. This procedure is contrary jo 7110.65 2-9-1. 2. This procedure is not coordinated or covered in an LOA and therefore neither fai TRACON nor zan is notified that they are liable for delivery of eil's weather. 3. This procedure increases fai TRACON and zan workload; including questions from zan to fai TRACON as to why inbound aircraft think zan should have eil weather.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: FAI approach controller voiced concern regarding the issuance of a 'blanket' ATIS at EIL that does not provide up dated airport weather information but suggests users secure weather data from other ATC sources. Reporter alleged procedural failures and increased workloads as a result.

Narrative: Seems that EIL has created something called a 'blanket' ATIS. Apparently; this means they make one ATIS and advertise for several hours that their current weather can be received from ATC. A few of the problems with this are. 1. This procedure is contrary JO 7110.65 2-9-1. 2. This procedure is not coordinated or covered in an LOA and therefore neither FAI TRACON nor ZAN is notified that they are liable for delivery of EIL's weather. 3. This procedure increases FAI TRACON and ZAN workload; including questions from ZAN to FAI TRACON as to why inbound aircraft think ZAN should have EIL weather.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	835740
Time
Date	200905
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	FAI.TRACON
State Reference	AK
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	No Aircraft
Person 1
Function	Approach
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Fai approach controller voiced concern regarding the issuance of a 'blanket' ATIS at eil that does not provide up dated airport weather information but suggests users secure weather data from other ATC sources. Reporter alleged procedural failures and increased workloads as a result.