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Old 18th Mar 2013, 09:24
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PompeyPaul
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Obvious

The reason to obfuscate NOTAMs is to give me an advantage over the lowly ground based Luddite. Otherwise why bother spending 45 hours doing a PPL if it was all in plain English and easy to understand?

Why would I need 45 hours of PPL training if the AIS website was as simple as clicking points of where I'll be flying and it giving me the briefings I need?

It's the same reason why we obfuscate IT and build redundancy into laptops. Otherwise there'd be no IT industry and we wouldn't get paid vast piles of cash for pressing a few buttons every day!
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