Definition
The transmission of spoken information by a Flight Service Station (FSS) over a designated radio frequency, providing pilots with airport advisories, weather, and traffic information at airports without an operating control tower.
Plain English
A Flight Service specialist speaks the airport and weather information out loud over the radio so that any pilot tuned to that frequency can hear it.
Context Anchor
Seen in Local Airport Advisory service, where airport information may be given to pilots by radio at an airport without an operating control tower.
Derivation
“Voice” comes from an older word meaning sound made by a person. “Broadcast” originally meant scattering seed widely, and later came to mean sending radio signals widely. Together, the words point to spoken information being sent out for aircraft to receive.
Why Pilots Care
Gives pilots real-time situational awareness for safer arrivals and departures at uncontrolled airports.
Intuition Check
Do not read “broadcasting” as casual talk or entertainment radio. In this context, it means an official aviation radio transmission of spoken airport information for pilots.
Example Sentence 1
Approaching the non-towered field, the pilot tuned to the FSS frequency and listened to the voice broadcasting of the current airport advisory.
Example Sentence 2
Voice broadcasting provided the latest wind and traffic information at the non-towered airport.