Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 2000; Flight Crew Type 600
Time Pressure; Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Airport; Procedure
HNL ATIS [is] so long no one actually listens to it. For the last several years I have listened to HNL ATIS thousands of times. It is the worst and longest ATIS I have ever heard and the ultra-long; droning voice with redundant; useless information creates conditions under which a pilot can't listen to and understand the whole thing even if he tried. I have timed the ATIS broadcast several times and it's always over 2 minutes in length. This represents about 5 NM traveled in a small aircraft; and probably double that in an airliner. Additionally; most of the information is useless or suffers from poor quality control.Examples:-Listing all lighting inoperative for a runway that is closed; in the middle of the day.-Way too much time spent on taxiways out of service.-Duplication of information like 'LAHSO in effect' spoken twice.-'taxiway Relative Humidity out of service' referring to taxiway RH.-'men and equipment working all taxiways and runways' has always been on the ATIS.-'increased bird strike hazard all runways' has always been on the ATIS.Nobody listens to this. I have tried to pay attention to the whole thing and it's damn difficult even on the ground. Last year when there were more runway closures there were events where aircraft overran closed sections of runway and I believe ATIS was primarily to blame.Ideas to make this better:-Get a faster talking robot; or make a human record it (that will eliminate some errors).-Move information that's always on there (like the bird strike thing) to the chart supplement.-Consolidate groups of information; like 'Taxiways closed: B; D; F; RH; RB'.-Maybe make a separate frequency with a 'long ATIS' for out of towners who want to hear about how bad the bird strike hazard is getting.We have a 20 min leg from ZZZ. This ensures that 10% of the flight will be spent listening to HNL's ATIS. Please make the FAA fix this.
Pilot reported the HNL ATIS as very lengthy; repetitive; outdated; and of poor quality.