Originally Posted by Jim59
Runway 10R/28L closed. Closed runway 10R/28L in use as a taxiway.
Thank you Jim59 but as it is an ATIS message, Wouldn't it be nice if it is a short and a sentence phraise?
One of the problems with too much emphasis on brevity, especially in NOTAMs as well as ATIS, is that meaning is lost. There are two different points to be made. 1. The runway is closed as a runway. 2. the closed runway is serving a different purpose. Trying to combine the two statements into e.g."RWY 10R/28L TO BE USED ONLY AS TWY." is certainly brief - why not "RWY 10R/28L IS A TWY." Presumably because it is less easy to understand. Two facts - make two statements.