"Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote:

"Michelle P" wrote in message
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Amendment not scheduled after 02Z (closing time).
Michelle
Ref Section 4 Page 3 AC00-45E

Amazing, isn't it, that after nearly forty years of broadband
communications, they still use phrasing(?) from the TELEGRAPH days.

And they wonder why pilots often fail to read that crap.


What is the alternative? Undecoded METARs/TAFs?

Why not?

I can't stand wading through an undecoded briefing where I have to pick
through "Wind" and "Temperature" and all of that unnecessary verbal
nonsense in order to get the information.

Wind and Temp data is nonsense?

If you learn to read
undecoded METARs/TAFs, it's pretty easy to pick out a lot of information
very quickly.

Sounds rather like the "If you can't run a computer from the command line,
you shouldn't be on it!" crowd. That was a popular refrain from the Unix
gang. I wonder how many of those are on the outs right now, with the IT
industry going south? "Requirements? We don't do requirements; you'll get it
the way we want to do it".

Automatic transmissions?

In my industry it's pneumatic nailers and factory built components. We build
houses using 40% of the manhours and have better fit, finish and materials
than the "Big Boys".


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO