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Is anyone else underwhelmed by the MEC’s new communications style that offers one vague sentence, followed by the same [Key Takeaway] reworded sentence?

English MF, do you speak it?

I am. We’re educated professionals who are smart enough to read full paragraphs. I feel insulted by the new communication format.

[Key Takeaway] I don’t like the new comms format either

[Discussion] new format is so irritating I dont even want to read the comms.

[key takeaway] it’s impossible to understand.

I’ve noticed the same thing and am not impressed.

It’s strange but I appreciate the effort to distill “the point” down to a sentence or three. On a related note, I was not a fan of the last comms chairman, GE…a bit of a jerk.

After the MEC’s **** show of the last year my feeling is way more info rather than less is what we need.

I suppose a summary sentence if fine if you have something to sum up. Unfortunately, the Key Takeaway is about equal to the body of the report, or, one to two sentences. There’s no actual content.

This committee is putting out a woefully low volume of work and only talks about Comm goals. We’re ready Comm - go.

Considering that we’re going to be asked to read a complex multi-thousand page TA document soon - we’d better be up to the task of reading longer passages.

Belittling the pilot group by addressing them as junior high dropouts is just disingenuous and mean. Publishing three sentences and calling it communications is just lazy.

So which is it?

Unfortunately the reality is day to day, pilots have poor reading comprehension. You need to boil it down and spell it out for them otherwise their key takeaway may be different from the key takeaway you wanted them to have.

[key takeaway] Pilots not so smart.

I like the key takeaway. It should be implemented on the flight release too, because those are tldr+.

This is a great idea that can be exploited for notams.

Instead of all those pesky unlit towers individually listed, there can just be a single NOTAM for the entire US.

“Numerous unlit towers in vicinity of airfields in the United States.”

Extrapolated further: “Some taxiways in the US are closed.” “Some approach minimums have changed in the US”

NOTAMS checked.

Absolutely genius.

This is genius, and we wouldn't have to halt air travel for 3hrs if the msg went missing.