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Newps wrote:


SFM wrote:

Tower, ground, and clearance delivery. ATIS is for the airport you listening
to not approach control

Sorry, no.


Actually, yes. Even if Approach was located at the airport in
question, The ATIS is for the AIRPORT, not the Approach into the
airport.

Take KLAS for example. It's a Tower/ATCT (facility where
Approach is located in the same building as Tower), in Class B
airspace. The field is open continuously. After 2am, every night, the
ATIS goes something like:

Info Alpha, 2156Z. Wind wind. vis vis. Sky sky. Temp temp.
Dewpoint dewpoint. Alt altimeter. visual, ILS, etc approaches in
use. Landing runways runways. Departing runways runways. NOTAMS
notams. All services available on freq. Advice on initial contact,
you have information Alpha.

What this means, is that Clearance delivery, Ground, and Tower
are all on freq. This does NOT mean Approach. For the list of the
approach freqs, See AirNav. You should have received a freq to contact,
if you had filed IFR or VFR with flight following (I don't know the
type of plan the OP had filed). If just VFR, then The approach freq
into that area (seeing that it was Class C, the OP should have had)
should have been on hand.

But the ATIS that was originally posted is only for the
AIRPORT, not the approach into the airport. If Approach was combined,
when contacted, the ATC would say "Change to my frequency, xxx.xx".
Approach combines freqs as well, but also still monitor the others
in case someone else does call up.

BL.
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