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.

Your tax dollars at work.