Funny IAP Fix Naming

[atrdriver]

I'll bet you went to UND or Embry-Riddle also. C'mon, a shirt with an ILS approach plate? I think they should do a "triumph the comic dog" skit about aviation "enthusiasts", like the star wars one they did a few years back.

Well, lets see. Does UND or Riddle have a campus in DSM? I didn't think so. I liked the shirt, and I bought it. No different than buying a sports t-shirt.

 

[atrdriver]

There's always the HILLE (or HILLY) and BILLI (or BILLY), don't have the chart here...intersections in ARK close to LIT, and if you look at the enroute chart they are on V-69, which pretty much proves that someone in the FAA has a sense of humor.

I think that the local facilities have at least some input on fix names. Several years ago the marker for 26R in ATL was renamed AJAAY, after a ATL tower controller that passed away.

 

[CaravanMan]

The outter marker on the ILS 18 (?) at OMA sounds normal...FLICK...but at night, in low light in the cockpit when you glance at it real fast it looks like F**K. Had a good laugh over that one.

 

[cforst513]

somewhere in NC there's a fix called NASCR. it's by mooresville, NC, the sel-proclaimed "race city USA"

 

[Av8rPHX]

I personally like the SKETR3 (skeeter,aka mosquito) arrival into MSP. Also I could have sworn I heard something about the "you betcha" intersection up there as well.

 

[ePilot22]

Check out the FAF, Ft. Leonard Wood is where Army does some basic training.

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/05093G14.PDF

Here is the NASCR.1

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/09155NASCR.PDF

Couldn't find the DRSER on any STAR but I did find these at KBNA (Gotta love the country music?)

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/00282I2C.PDF

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/00282I20L.PDF

 

[jetalc]

Don't forget the Deberry 1 Arrival into Colorado Springs - Coach Deberry was the coach at the Air Force Academy, and some of his favorite plays are part of the arrival...

 

[jetalc]

Or...the Goofy 5 and the Minee 3 arrivals into Orlando...has somebody already mentioned those?