Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Good question, stilton.
Basic weather in abbreviated form is fine - e.g, - 34005KT 300V010 4000 RA SCT004 BKN011 09/09 Q1012 - is easy to scan and “see” the unabbreviated version, and it is reasonably concise.
However, remarks, turbulence reports and possibly Snowtams are not so easy to assimilate, and, (for me), require digging out decode sheets.
Some years’ ago there was a similar discussion on Pprune and the phrase “ JETOK” was proposed for a collection of certain parameters which would not be a problem for the average medium to large passenger jet.
Where I now work, the software picks out any potential problems in the NOTAMS, by highlighting all words such as “closed”, “U/S”, “unavailable”, etc in red, which helps a lot.
The danger here is that an abbreviation the developer didn't think about or know about is missed and because you've become accustomed to looking for the red highlight then you miss it too
just my two-penneth