"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Because lets face it, METAR code is a foreign language which originated
from aliens from a another planet

For sure!

What I find hilarious is when the FAA says they use these
abbreviations because of "limited computer capacity"...

We actually had an FAA geek state that at a Safety Seminar a few years
ago. Even then, before the days of 400 gigabyte PC hard drives, the
room erupted in laughter.

If only they WERE using 400GB PC's instead of the vacuum tubed, 1970's
models relics they do :~)

I'm amazed the FAA does ATC in real-time, rather than as an overnight batch
process.