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Now, if only I could get the weather people to present their reports and forecasts with whole words!
That's a good one - I can see the justification when it all had to be sent by teletype or morse code, but in the days of the internet it seems an anachronism to me... unless anybody with more experience can point out a reason why things should stay as they are?
For DAR:
EGXW Waddington Current Aviation Weather Conditions and Forecasts
For ABGD: makes us seem clever because we can decode it. Same reason I'm sure that musos have to learn bits of French, German and Italian to decipher performance markings.