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Old 7th Oct 2011, 02:09
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superdimona
 
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This whole argument for TAF's to be in plain english. I mean really, is it that hard to learn a few abbreviations? If you don't know them there in the AIP which you can get for free for christ sake.
Because not having a plain English option is nuts - it has no drawbacks but can help people (if your English ain't great, stick to the TAFs). Sure TAFs aren't rocket science but why make things harder then they have to be? If there was a legal requirement to do the Mexican Hat Dance before each walkaround, would you insist it remain a requirement because it's easy to learn?

Suppose the situation was reversed, and we'd always had both a plain English option as well as the anachronistic WW2 telegraph-era TAFs. What grounds would you have for removing the English option?
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