How can it be otherwise?

Things were specified before the dawn of writing. When my wife asks
me to go to the store and pick up yogurt, but only the "plain", not
the vanilla, she doesn't write it down. Nonetheless, the kind of
yougurt she wants is specified. Likewise, when she asks me to pick up
chips, I know from experience that she means a specific kind of chips.
(and no, I'm not talking about Intel or Motorola either).

Three hundred years ago, there =were= no dictionaries, but the
meanings of words were still specified through usage.

That's how it can be otherwise. "Modified straight in" is specified
in this same manner, although it ends up specified only to the locals.
Itinerants are left with a question, which should be asked. While
this may seem wickedly dangerous, the tradeoff is that less air time
on a busy channel is used up saying "modified straight in" (which
most pilots there understand) than saying "start at the intersection
of I210 and I14 and follow the channel southbound towards the runway".
I am presuming that the actual flight path has a good reason, and
simply not using that flight path is not an option.

So what does it mean to an itinerant pilot?

It means the pilot ought to ask what it means.

It means nothing.

That =you= don't know something does not drain its meaning.

You're mistaken.

No, I'm not.

Of course you are, your position is absurd.


I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid.

Jose
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