>> Given the convoluted names of some of the stuff, it wasn't to keep the uninitiated
>> in the dark, it was a requirement for effective communication.
Thank you for distilling my point in a sentence. It's not just TLA's, same applies to professional/technical terms such as lawyers' ex parte.
Aviation has a set of its own too. Some like RVR (Runway Visual Range) - how close to the runway you will be before you see it - are simple TLA's. Others like QFE/QNH - altimeter pressure settings to read zero at (a) the airfield or (b) sea level - date to a time when radio telephony (RT) was in morse code and need to keep keying to a minimum.
EMEA - East Midlands and East Anglia?
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sun 17 Mar 19 at 08:51
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