A one-stop shop for Austro Control’s customers. This service is available free of charge at all of Austria’s commercial airports. If you want to make all of your pre-flight preparations from the comfort of your home, Austro Control can make it possible for a modest annual fee at http://www.homebriefing.com/. The self-briefing service provides an interactive link between access to AIS and MET information and flight plan filing. After making a minimal number of entries, you can retrieve all of the information you need to prepare for a flight. All briefings and flight plans rendered by the new self-briefing service are electronically stored in a personal self-briefing virtual handbook.
Conversion to self-briefing and home-briefing for all of Austria will take place 1 April 2006 following a long test and information phase designed to reach as many airspace users, flight schools and flight instructors as possible. After that date all flight plan filing, briefings and MET briefings will be done exclusively online, in addition to which a service centre is at your disposal 24/7. You can reach the help desk in Vienna and the local flight weather advisory by phone from any self-briefing station. Outside local office hours the central help desk in the new tower at Vienna International Airport can be reached by phone around the clock for questions or help and this includes the weather advisory.
The flight help desk at the airports (AIS/ARO) will no longer be manned as of April 2006. During a six-month transitional phase, employees working at the Salzburg air traffic control unit will be available, when needed, to answer any technical questions. As in the past, all of the services defined by ICAO and Eurocontrol are still available and the possibilities opened up by home-briefing are a considerable enhancement. The system was designed and developed by Austro Control employees together with an industrial partner and has since been recognized as the leading system in all of Europe. That’s the reason why Switzerland decided not only to introduce the same system, but to operate it jointly with Austro Control. Other European air traffic controllers have already expressed their interest.
In future Austro Control will be focusing more heavily on using new technologies to improve the services it offers to pilots. Naturally, Austro Control is counting on the active involvement of airspace users, who should let Austro Control know if they have any helpful suggestions or recommendations for improvements.
Home-briefing on the Internet
One of the greatest advantages of the new system is the possibility to make all pre-flight preparations on the Internet either at home or on the go. At http://www.hombriefing.com/ you can conduct AIS and MET briefings and file flight plans anytime, anyplace. The only prerequisite is Internet access. You can test home-briefing free of charge for the first three months, after which a fee of only EUR 36 a year is charged.
If you have any questions about how to use the system or would like to make concrete suggestions or improvement recommendations, please contact Austro Control at herbert.pamminger@austrocontrol.at (Salzburg air traffic control unit) or ais.loww@austrocontrol.at; Tel. 051703 ext.3211
Info folder: If you would like to receive a self-briefing information brochure, just send an e-mail to info@austrocontrol.at.
Login data:
If you simply want to access weather information or NOTAMS at the self-service terminals, you can enter the site by logging on as “guest” and using “guest” as the password:
Login: Guest / Password: Guest
If, on the other hand, you want to access the full range of functions including flight plan filing you must register once and enter your pilot license number.
Locations: Self-service terminals are located in the AIS area of Salzburg Airport.
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