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Old 21st Apr 2010, 15:42
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Airbubba
 
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Be careful of using a lay persons intrepretation of what these documents for the pilots are intended to convey.
And, the way these things are written, often pilots can't figure out what they are trying to say. The human interface on our NOTAMs and other flight papers is primitive to say the least. Obscure abbreviations and lack of graphics with coded number and letter groups mean it's so easy to overlook something important. Everything is in caps since 1930's teletypes couldn't do lower case.
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