2 questions on SB/VATSIM1) I don't seem to have much success with Autoatis. The procedure as I understand it is: - Tune AutoAtis frequency for desired Airport - Type anything and send in chatbox.Is this correct, it never seems to work for me. How close do I have to be to get the result?2) When you have "tuned" in the channel of the ATC either directly on SB or through Serverinfo guage do you still need to type in the controler ID. ex. typing "ORD_TWR AA123 Cleared to land...."or just "AA123 Cleared to land" and send. thanks,Mark.

#1: Autoatis has not been working for a coupla weeks. I have not heard when it will be back online. However when it is working I tune the freq, then I type "autoatis {airport name}" ie. "autoatis KSTL" for St Louis. If it is working, you would then see the wx report.#2: not sure if i understand correctly, I think you are saying you have received clrance to land from the controller. If this is so, you would type/say "Cleared to land runway x, AAL123". on readback of the controller's instructions, your callsign is @ the end. On requests, your callsign is at the beginning ie: "AA123, holding short rwy 13L, ready for takeoff."The only time you technically would say the controller's callsign is on initial contact, ie: "ORD_TWR, AAL123 holding short rwy 13L, ready for takeoff."I hope I have not confused you! I hope I am being clear & I certainly hope I have given you accurate info. If not, someone, PLEASE correct me!George

1) It's down. Probably permanently.2) You need not type either the controller's callsign or your own.