Keith (Southend)G wrote:

Which leads me onto my greatest fear, I'm going to need a degree in
computer programming to have the slightest chance of keeping up with
the times and on a scale of 1 to 100 I'm probably on 0.5 ! I just wish
I could break through this barrier of understanding :-(

Trust me, a degree in computer programming may not help - I was trying
to write some code to decode METARs but it is extremely complex, mainly
because there are many METARs which are not standard. A more standard
standard would be much easier to parse electronically (PS. I have a
degree in Computer Science and I'm doing a PhD in it now!)

Jonathan
Canterbury