On 2008-03-28, Thomas Borchert wrote:
This refers to the flight performance data (primarily, weight and balance)
I would have thought they were referring to the ATIS as "the numbers" (not
"their").

Thats why I was careful to see what the original query was. The ATIS doesn't
count as "their numbers"; the weight and balance info does.

FWIW, I was always taught to indicate I had the ATIS with, for example,
"Ellington Tower, Zodiac five five Zulu Charlie, inbound from the southeast
for landing with Foxtrot." "I have the numbers" is not sufficiently precise:
it doesn't tell them *which* numbers you have, and if the ATIS changes, they
need to know if you got the right ones.
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