Why so many abbreviations in NOTAMs, etc.?

"Tauno Voipio" wrote ...
>
> The TTY was 45.45 bits/s in US and 50 bit/s in Europe,
> with 5 bit coding (Telex).
>
> The 8 bit 110 bit/s thingy is newer.
>

I was afraid of that ;-o
So it's really old then.

Rich Ahrens <rma@visi.com> wrote in news:132afau96q8e3ed@corp.supernews.com:

> My first "laptop" was a portable hardcopy terminal whose standard speed
> was 110 baud. High speed was 300 baud! Acoustic coupler for connectivity
> and rolls of thermal paper for media. It rocked.

Yes, but back then "It rocks" refered to Granny and Pappy on the front
porch...

Mark Hansen wrote:
>>
>> You may well be right but the DE knows what you missed and can test
>> you on them.
>
> Of course. But you said that the applicant will be tested and I don't
> think that's necessarily true - it's up to the DE...


You're right I should have said "can," "might be" or maybe even "probably
will be." I know I was asked about everything I missed on my written.

Jon wrote:

>
> NAS Modernization is coming. But it won't come all at once. Much to
> big a web (bad word choice) was woven over the decades to even
> contemplate doing it any other way.
>

It would probably be less expensive and easier in both the long and short
run to not update the current system but to create a completely new one and
let it run in parallel with the current system and then just let the last
one out turn out the light.

>> I can't think of any situation today in which bandwidth
>> would be so severely limited that saving a letter or two would make a
>> difference,

METARs by cell phone text message service would be quite unwieldy if
they were not abbreviated, and imagine if some yahoo decides that HTML
format is the "modern" way to go.

Feh

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

> >> I can't think of any situation today in which bandwidth
> >> would be so severely limited that saving a letter or two would make a
> >> difference,
>
> METARs by cell phone text message service would be quite unwieldy if
> they were not abbreviated, and imagine if some yahoo decides that HTML
> format is the "modern" way to go.
>
Or menu generated Java. Proprietary, of course... :-(