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Old 14th Jun 2019, 02:30
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I do use aeroweather, as do many others, but usually i keep it in the not-translated setting, simply because i can read that abbreviated report faster than the non-abbreviated one. Same for scanning the weather of around 30 airports during briefing in the morning, much faster in the METAR format than in long text. NOTAMS is a bit of a mixed bag. Some NOTAMS actually do come in non-abbreviated form, and they usually contain a lot of text, but not all that much in information. But some of the NOTAM abbreviations are rather creative and not easily decoded, but most of the stuff is easy enough to read. And again, scanning the informations of all destinations, departures, enroute airports of four sectors in at most 5 minutes of flight preparation time in the alloted check in time is usually faster in abbreviated form.
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