CriticalMass wrote:
Jonathan Goodish wrote:

What is the alternative? Undecoded METARs/TAFs?

Obviously, plain-language. Where's the compelling reason to make trying
to read them a goat-rope? All the encoded BS is a relic of a prior era,
driven by the technology of that era, and now, well overtaken by events
and several generations of newer technology that make it embarrassingly
obsolete.

Not entirely. I get weather data on my cell phone which doesn't have a
ton of screen space and can get an entire TAF cycle in about two
screens which is quite convenient. The thing I have the most trouble
with is converting from zulu to local time. Flying a plane I can handle
but simple arithmetic seems to elude me.

-cwk.