Airport Identifier Logic

Maybe it deliberately stand for anything. I'm sure many of you have heard
of ISO, the standards body. What does it stand for? International
Standards Organization? Wrong. It's the International Organization for
Standardization. And in French, l'Organization Internationale pur la
Normalization. In other words the acronym deliberately stands for
neither.

John

"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
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Nyaaa, the guy in charge of that has a sense of humor and was an Edgar
Rice
Burroughs fan... It comes from, "ME TARzan, you jane... "

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METAR - The ICAO established format for transmittig surface weather
observations

METAR - MESSAGE MÉTÉOROLOGIQUE RÉGULIER POUR L'AVIATION Hmm. I can't
see how they got METAR from that, but it's supposedly where the term
came from.

I don't think METAR is an acronym so much as a made up word. METAR is
rougly
pronounceable in most of the member languages.