Anito said: "As for the PPL's, all they need to know to decode is CAVOK. No CAVOK on the forecast, no fly. Simple."
I'm fairly simple, and haven't quite got my PPL yet, but I don't need CAVOK to fly, and fly legal. To fly I need to be able to read the weather, I need to be able to observe the weather and understand both.
Radish-fecti said: "...TAF...IMHO...CAVOK...BoM..."
If acronyms & abbreviations (why is that word so long...) are such an anathema to you why do you use them??? If you have difficulty understanding same why do you clutter your own presentations with the same thing???? This is not the first thread I have seen with such inconguities.
Sunfishy said (most wisely): "...these codes are part of an international system..."