Originally Posted by
GWYN
if FEW, SCT, BKN and OVC are defined in terms of OKTAS, why, oh why, did we ever have to get rid of OKTAS and introduce another level of complexity???
Because, it seems, everything has to be complicated into fours, as are the CAP774 types of ATS: Basic, Traffic, Decon, and Procedural. Then everything will blur into one another and make life difficult.
Anyway, I'm surprised EASA hasn't decimalised it again, for it was 'tenths' before oktas...