What is RSINet and why do I need it?
If you have an AWOS at your airport, you know pilots have come to rely on it for information critical to flight planning and safety. This information is available via your ground to air frequency and the telephone. RSINet takes your AWOS data further, distributing it to FAA Flight Service Stations, Air Traffic Control facilities, and flight briefing services through the National Airspace Data Interchange Network (NADIN) every 20 minutes. This service is vital to Part 135 charter operations.
- RSINet sends your AWOS METAR reports to the FAA and National Weather Service 3 times per hour, delivering your AWOS data to the FAA for distribution to flight service stations, air traffic control facilities worldwide, commercial weather providers, and the National Weather Service for distribution to DUATS and commercial weather data providers… all using a single solution!
- Pilots relying on flight briefing services for flight planning, and pilots in the air but out of range of the AWOS now have FAA certified access to your data via this gateway, making your airport accessible to Part 135 operators as well as “on the map” to thousands of itinerant aircraft.
- Your airport’s weather data will appear in the XM satellite data stream making it available to in-cockpit weather systems and XM weather enabled GARMIN and other GPS units.
The bottom line is flight safety and revenue for your airport. Pilots able to check your airport’s weather from anywhere will be more likely to add your airport as a fuel or overnight stopover. Think about it. Most of you reading this are pilots. If you were choosing a stopover or diversion airport in mid-flight, wouldn’t you choose the one for which ATC had current weather? Or the one that appears in your Garmin display? If you’re an airport owner or manager, wouldn’t you want that to be YOUR airport?
More traffic. More sales. More revenue. That’s RSINet.