All part of the pilot mystique
Absolutely right!
Not too long ago, on a very sad day when Concorde flew for the last time, a non-pilot friend of mine sent an e-mail to just about everyone in his computer's address book to let us all know which internet sites would be covering the event, etc. (Yes, I know I have some very sad friends!) He copied+pasted a TAF ("from a really good website I found called PPRuNe"!) and asked me to de-code it - made me feel very important for a whole 5 minutes!
FFF
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