Each year as we wander round AeroExpo we have a go at the Met people on their stand there, and ask why TAFs and METARs can't be in English instead of obscure code. We don't live in the age of semaphore any more, so we shouldn't need to have to decode gibberish.
The answer was always - "well, its international" , and ours was "NOAA does it, why can't you?". That was the end of the conversation, but someone once promised in an email that they'd do it on the next update. I don't think they have and I didn't see them this year to have another whinge.
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