Y'all,
I had originally planned to post this on ras group but decided to go afield.
Found that this group is a haven for old friends. My new medical says that
I'm good for two more years and at 80 that's something to shoot for.

Got the FAA NEW "Instrument Procedures Handbook". FAA-H-8261-1 (2004) in the
mail yesterday. Free, but don't know why. Book consists of 25% appendixes.

As is my practice, I started reading from the back of the book.

Appendix D is--Acronyms and Glossary

I knew about one out of every three or 100 of 300.

There seems to be no end to the bureaucratic effort to reduce the name of
everything into an acronym.

Some of the more unique a

ALAR, AOCC; ARFF; ASDAR; ATCRBS; ATCT; CAASD; CARF; CDTI, CPDLC, CRCT;
DBRITE; DRVSM; EDCT; EGPWS; EICAS; EWINS; FISDL; GDPE; GWS; HOCSR; LAPC;
MAMS; MAHWP; MASPS; MAWP; McTMA; MNPS; NACO; NASSI; NIMA; NTAP; pFAST; RDOF;
RVSM; SATNAV; SMGCS; SPECI; STMP; SWAP; TAOARC; URET; VCOA; VGSI; WMSC;

I haven't cross checked there with my older texts but of the 45 I have here
I doubt that any one person can name more than ten.
Some are named below.

Contest anyone? \

Glossary has right on 150 items. I only knew 41 of them as being familiar
and used.

Some of the unknowns:
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast; Center Radar ARTS
Presentation/Processing, Database columns; Database Field; Database
Identifier, Database Record; D-ATIS; Diverse Vector Area (DVA); Dynamic
Magnetic Variation, Ellipsoid of Revolution; Flight Information Region
(FIR); Four corner post configuration, Geodetic Datum; Gross Navigation
Error (GNE); Highway in the Sky (HITS); LPV (not an acronym); Military Space
Management System (MAMS); Obstacle Clearance Surface (OCS); Obstacle
Identification Surface (OIS); Principal Operations Inspector (POI); Runway
Hotspots; Station declination, Tracab; Traffic information service -
broadcast; transition Layer, User Request Evaluation Tool (URET)