Funny IAP Fix Naming

[ePilot22]

I've come across a few IAPs with some unique fix names. The FAA must have a hint of humor somewhere within their ranks. Check out these two charts:

KPSM; RNAV (GPS) RWY 16

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/00678R16.PDF

KMCI; ILS RWY 1R

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/00780I1R.PDF

If anyone else knows of some unique fix naming, please post!

Disclaimer *NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATIONAL PURPOSES*, charts are found for free at www.naco.faa.gov, please do not use the above links.

Tom

 

[KigAir]

I am trying to figure out what's up with your Disclaimer. Aren't those plates current?

 

[ePilot22]

Yeah the plates are current. Use the ones from the website link thought. I just don't want to be responsible for the PDF file links in case they aren't updated with new charts in 28 days or so. The link to NACO is good and free. The charts are under "digital-tpp". I am by no means promoting FAA charts; I like/use Jeppesen IAPs! Unfortunetly I can't give out that link!

 

[atrdriver]

Always use a disclaimer. If you don't, somewhere, someone is dumb enough to go out and use a chart that they don't check for currency and kill themselves. I used to have a t-shirt with the FAA plate for DSM ILS 13R and it said the same thing. Just in case someone decided to look at their shirt instead of looking up the plate.

 

[ePilot22]

Thanks, my thoughts exactly!

 

[Mr Wu]

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/00859I18.PDF




Blah, Blah, Blah. Don't use it.

 

[cforst513]

who names the fixes? is it the FAA? pretty funny stuff. let's hear some more!!! i know of the crazy woman VOR and MOANS intersection, in florida, but in my mighty 150 hours of flying, i haven't come across many more funny ones.

 

[joepilot29]

There is an intersection about 10-15 miles offshore of the florida keys called DROWN.

 

[AlabamaMan!!]

I used to have a t-shirt with the FAA plate for DSM ILS 13R and it said the same thing. Just in case someone decided to look at their shirt instead of looking up the plate.

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.

 

[Swede]

Didn't there used to be a Star Trek approach?

KIRKK, SPOCK, SULUU, etc?

I don't know if it exists anymore...

 

[ePilot22]

Couldn't find the Star Trek approach. KIRKK fix is at KEVY, SPOCK fix is at KVJI and there is no SULUU fix. And don't get me started with Riddle kids, I sit next to one forty hours a week!!!

 

[Vavso]

Ooops

I can relate to CZI .... "crazy woman" VOR

 

[YourNameHere]

http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0510/00671I2.PDF

 

[puttin4doh]

Someone's gonna have to help me out on the location, I think it's BNA. But There's a transition fix on the STAR called DRESR. Which leads to approach control instructions such as: "cross DRESR at 11,000..."

Also for baseball fans, you gotta love the Marlin 4 arrival, TRIPL-DUBBL-MARLN

Good stuff....

puttin

 

[Air 1]

The DRESR fix is Cincinatti, OH. I heard approach tell a pilot "Cross DRESR at 11,000 feet," and the pilot asked for a diversion. There are some weird fixes out there!

 

[pilotmiketx]

http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0510/00609AWDAD.PDF

http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0510/00609RYTHM.PDF

Still trying to figure out what SATAN has to do with Tweety bird.

 

[magneticmd80]

neat star referencing basketball and the houston rockets.
http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0510/05461ROKIT.PDF

 

[pilotguy5]

DONGS int.

 

[QuasarZ]

Kinky int.

 

[FlyFlyFly]

My favorite is the DRUNK intersection over Hyannis in MA. It is on a DP from Boston.
http://http://download.aopa.org/iap/20050929/NE-1/bos_logan_two_dp.pdf
I wonder what someone is trying to communicate with that?

Isn't there a new Arrival into NO with the LOOTR intersection?

 

[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?