Way (to go) Point

Strawbs1977 · Post by **Strawbs1977** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:42 pm

"I came across this following article in Flight International 28 Match- 3 April 2006 Way (to go) point Your uncle thought he was about to tap a hitherto unexploited and rich vein of humour when he gleefully heard of routeing in Australia ? ZZ929 from Townsville to Mt Gordon ? to be exact, which used the following waypoints: TL ITORT EYSAW APUSS ECATT DCT However, it now seems there are other fans of the Sylvester and Tweet Bird cartoon out there in route?planning land. Scott McCartney of the Wall Street Journal has been staking a few claims in this territory already among the nuggets he unearthed are the approach to Portsmouth, New Hampshire that takes a pilot from ITAWT to ITAWA to PUDYE to TATT. ?if a pilot can?t land, he is told to hold by way of IDEED,? says McCartney. Other gems include: ?Airplanes approaching Newark International Airport in New Jersey toward the northeast will cross either HOWYA or DOOIN. Louisiana has RYTHM, Kentucky has BRBON and Massachusetts has BOSOX. Kansas City, Missouri, has SPICY, BARBQ and RIBBS. To pilots, Montpelier, Vermont, is known for its HAMMM, BURGR and FRYYS. Andrews AFB near Washington has a Republican bent these days, with an approach from the south that goes from FORRD to RREGN, and one from the north that moves from DUBYA to BUUSH.? On one of the arrival routeings to Cincinnati, pilots are likely to be instructed to ?cross DRESSR at 18,000ft?. The US Federal Aviation Administration also allowed BUXOM, which is in Oregon, and JUGGS, which is in Idaho. In Phoenix, Arizona, one arrival route to the airport moves from SLAMN to DUNKK to BBALL to SUNSS to HOOPS. American football-crazed Houston, Texas, has an arrival with the following fixes: GOALL, PPUNT, DRPPD, FTBAL, COACH, QTRBK, TAKKL, RECVR, FMBLE and, seven miles west of Hobby Airport, TCHDN? Thought I share it with all. I wonder what else is out there? "

snipe · Post by **snipe** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:52 pm

That is so funny [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] . I see these intersection names all the time and know that some are associated with the area I'm flying into but never thought of putting them together like the Sylevester and Tweety Bird one. Thanks [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] ! Mark

Post by **nwadc10** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:34 pm

"This is rather common...and clever. At least the FAA has some sort of sense of humor! In the Minneapolis/St. Paul area there is VYKES, WOLVS, TWINZ, GOLLF, WILDD, TWOLF, LYNKS (the local WNBA team) and the waypoints to runway 35 (the new runway) is as follows in order as you fly the approach: JAMEZ OBERR SSTAR ROZEE LORAH. James Oberstar is a representative of MN and I'm guessing he had a hand in getting the new runway and I presume Rosie and Laura are relatives. Others in the area are KBREW (Harmon Killabrew), HRBEK (Kent Hrbek), LOOON, and the primary VORTAC in the area is Gopher. What else is out there? Justin"