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Re:Unmanned Airport Control Tower Installed in Northern Colo... by chrisper on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:27AM (#17902191)
What you are talking about is uncontrolled airspace. Pilots announce their moves to each other.

The automatic message is called ATIS, which also exists at manned airports. These days it is recorded automatically, tho.

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Re:Unmanned Airport Control Tower Installed in Northern Colo... by Justin_K on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:24AM (#17903037)
The message is more specifically AWOS.
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Re:Unmanned Airport Control Tower Installed in Northern Colo... by cmurf on Monday September 03, 2018 @12:09PM (#17903327)
Or ASOS. The ASOS is a bit more sophisticated. Both are automated, including the generation of the outgoing message.

ATIS found mainly at airports with a control tower, is recorded by a human, and contains airport information in addition to weather information; construction, hazards, active runways, what approach procedures are being used. They can also be approach and departure specific.

All of these can typically be called by phone as well as heard by radio.

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