Translate WX Forecast

Matt Barrow wrote:
You're conflating READING and WRITING.
If you read normally, abbreviations (SCT vs Scattered) makes a difference of
milliseconds. Comprehending what's actually written takes MUCH longer.
Sorry, but that whole (fast brief) thing strikes me as rather bogus.

Practice, practice, practice!

"john smith" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:
You're conflating READING and WRITING.
If you read normally, abbreviations (SCT vs Scattered) makes a
difference of
milliseconds. Comprehending what's actually written takes MUCH longer.
Sorry, but that whole (fast brief) thing strikes me as rather bogus.

Practice, practice, practice!

Every day...a hundred pages!

It is easier to write PDA than Personal Digital Assistant, USA than
United States of America, or C172 than Cessna one seventy two. It is
also ironic that you wrote WX instead of WEATHER in your subject line.

Acronyms have little to do with bandwidth. It has everything to do with
ease of reading.





Jose wrote in news:_oDGe.2735$gt5.616
@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:

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?

I think what he means is that the word "wind" and "temperature" is
nonsense if you already know which numbers they are. (He probably
also
mistyped "undecoded" for "decoded into prose")

For example, once you really know the format,
FM0800 VRB03KT 3SM BR OVC040
is easier to read than
"from 8:00 Greenwich Mean Time until 14:00 Greenwich Mean time (2:00
pm
in England), the winds will be variable at three knots, visibility
will
be three statute miles in mist and the ceiling will be overcast at
four
thousand feet above ground level."

This is especially true when you stack a bunch of them up to spot a
trend, or are getting the METAR from a PDA or internet cell phone.

Jose

Jose wrote:
How much more would an entire briefing be using SCATTERED rather than
SCT,
Former instead of FMT...


It wouldn't line up vertically. This makes it harder to see trends.

Oh, jeesh. Altogether now, "DON GREEN EYESHADES!".


It would take up more space on tiny displays - not everyone uses a 20 inch
computer screen in the cockpit, or when walking around.

And no one is going to convince me all that many people are getting
their briefs on "tiny screens or when walking around". Some are, sure.
But with nothing to prove it, I bet the vast majority use desktop
terminals to do it, either at home, or at the airport, where they are
normally available.

All your statement does is corroborate what most people already know -
"tiny screens" aren't very useful for surfing the web or gathering data.

john smith wrote:


Practice, practice, practice!

"Practice" what, early 20th century technology when we're into the 21st
century? I have better things to use my memory for when I fly.