[wjossey]

As a student pilot, this drives me nuts. The volume of abbreviations, especially in NOTAMS, METARs, etc, is a bit obscene.

What’s wonderful too is that the abbreviations are often based on non English words as well, so they aren’t intuitive. As an example, instead of typing “mist” in a METAR it is “BR” based on the French word brume.

[jdavis703]

And yet, on a general interest site you write in acronyms only pilots and aviation buffs will understand.

[ahefner]

Exactly.