The test writers in OKC, bless their pointy little heads, seem always to be
ten to twenty years behind reality. Knowledge exams still use the
black-and-white weather charts that the NWS and NOAA have banished to the
cellar in favor of color graphics, and they are striving to dump them
entirely. I would guess that it is the FAA that keeps them from doing so.
Thus the many plaintive posts "Where can I find weather charts like those in
my study material???"

Bob

"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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Bob Gardner wrote:
Well....I did take my ATP written in 1977....

The FAA, as usual, was behind the times. All the majors were on computer
flight plans by the early 1970s. I can attest that at TWA they were all
done by hand by the flight crew until about 1970.