"conditional language" in a TAF
I am trying to comprehend an OpSpec that says "All conditional forecast elements below the lowest applicable operating minimums must be taken into account."
While I can assume this means anything in a TAF below mins counts in disqualifying an airfield, I cannot take the leap from assumption to absolute certainty without understanding factually the definition of "conditional forecast elements". Google and searching here yielded a few nebulous answers half-answers:
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Any portion which contains "PROB" or "TEMPO."
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Then there's the practice of companies that note weather forecast below minimums, but purchase a "RAMTAF" showing vastly improved weather, and substitute that in the flight packet to show forecast weather well above minimums. That doesn't happen, does it?
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Of course not! Or to look at it another way, you can get the best weather money can buy.
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Which is interesting because they use the word "conditional" fit everything in to a small tidy box. But if everybody just called it "temp. & prob. Language" it would actually be fewer syllables and would never need to be explained again. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
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