The last time I flew with SE2 I went to a fairly busy airfield so was keeping a good visual lookout in the circuit and listening to SD audio traffic warnings.

Tony,

I have significant experience over more than 40 years of the use of communications in a variety of fields - including military and civilian emergency services and ham radio, as well as in aviation, and strongly agree with Paul on this one.

The use of standard message formats and terminology is of vital importance in critical (or emergency) communications - especially in potentially stressful, busy, high noise or poor radio quality environments, as it helps the brain to subconsciously recognise, register, decode, interpret and act on the message, without distracting focus away from the job in hand - in our case flying the aircraft and continuing to maintain effective visual scan. For this reason it is essential that we keep the format and content of audio warnings as close as possible to the standard (ATC style) format.

Significant deviation or variation will only lead to confusion with potentially critical consequences.

Best Regards

Peter

/thread and product drift/
For that very reason, PilotAware should colour code METAR consistently with the system used at military airfields. :-)