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Can anyone explain the following:
EGKK 1916 0ZNKIAUQE EWAEB30
TEMPO XPHP/ BECMXBUAUW LAPQPKT 7000 -RA BKN0 00/ 30 .//9 0816 4000 RA
BECMG 1518 9999 10015G30KT
????????????
FlapsOne
19th Oct 2002, 22:39
Wibble!
Hmm yeh, i was thinking the same thing....
God bless the pilots trying to figure it out lol!
Earthmover
19th Oct 2002, 23:44
Quote:
Can anyone explain the following:
EGKK 1916 0ZNKIAUQE EWAEB30
TEMPO XPHP/ BECMXBUAUW LAPQPKT 7000 -RA BKN0 00/ 30 .//9 0816 4000 RA
BECMG 1518 9999 10015G30KT
Certainly: London Gatwick Terminal Area Forecast for nineteen hundred hours to sixteen hundred hours (clearly using a wormhole in the space-time continuum):
AUSTRALIAN NIMBUS KLOUD IN AIR UNFORTUNATELY (QUICKLY EASING) ENGLISH WEATHER AFTER (ESTIMATED 'BOUT 30 MINUTES) TEMPORARILY X-RAYS (PERHAPS) BECOMING EXTREMELY BRIGHT USUALLY, ALTHOUGH UNCOMFORTABLY WET LATER ABSOLUTELY PIDDLING QUITE A PACKET SEVEN THOUSAND METRES IN LIGHT RAIN BROKEN CLOUD ON THE SURFACE (WELL, MAYBE THIRTY FEET) VERTICAL VISIBILITY 0.9FT the rest I hope you will be able to decipher.
Good grief man, don't they teach you anything in the flying colleges nowadays? Harrumph! ;)
knobbygb
20th Oct 2002, 09:15
:D :D :D Thanks Earthmover, not laughed so much in ages.
Earthmover
20th Oct 2002, 11:26
Thanks - but I think I need to get out more! :)
FlapsOne
20th Oct 2002, 19:25
Double wibble !!!!!!!!!!!
Notso Fantastic
20th Oct 2002, 20:00
You have to worry if you can decode that. It shows you are very sad and should go out with girls more often.......but don't talk to them in that sort of language!
Earthmover
20th Oct 2002, 23:35
Notso, yes, yes alright! The lady for whom the earth moves is away so I spend too much time idling here - she wouldn't be too happy at the going out with girls, but I'll let her know you what you advise!
End of thread I think - back to Techlog!
Earthmover
21st Oct 2002, 00:10
This is what I hate about public forums. You make a (not particularly funny, admittedly) jocular post to while away a few minutes, a colleague has a gentle 'poke' back (well taken) and then some snotty comes on and starts hurling childish abuse around. I wish I'd never bothered - I won't again. Time to remove the whole thread.
RadarContact
21st Oct 2002, 09:48
Please do bother again. I guess most of the 150 or so people who viewed this post and did not reply quite enjoyed your particularly challenging decoding. I know I did.
As the originator of the post, I certainly enjoyed Earthmovers response! Certainly ligtened up my day. Most of the time when repying with "LOL", I am doing exactly the opposite, sitting there with a straight face...but every once in a while...I am actually lol'ing, like with this post..
chears Earthmover :D :D :D
FlyingForFun
21st Oct 2002, 13:55
I agree! Chuck Mrs Earthmover out more often, and let's have more posts like this. The best laugh so far this week! :D
Keep it up!
FFF
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AerBabe
21st Oct 2002, 21:24
Hear hear! Let's have more of the same Earthmover :D This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time, and it's been committed to my hard drive already :)
Earthmover
21st Oct 2002, 23:03
Ah, you are too kind .......... but she's back, and I have a flight-deck waiting ......... such is life! ;)