Airport Identifiers

[Cat Driver]

How many of you have been to FOOL?

[Old Dog Flying]

Tim: CZBB...Blunder Bay...Class "C" under the CYVR Terminal Class"C"...sorry that's Boundary Bay. How could I ever make that mistake????

[Tim]

Well it is very easy to look them up as many said here, even google works.... BUT as curious as I am, sometimes there is also a part of me that could not give a poop. The formula goes like this --> 2 Parts curious, 2 parts apethy, and 1 part lazyness. Thats adds up to 3 out of five reasons for not looking it up.

you brought laziness up not me, i just commented on it. your words.

Tim: CZBB...Blunder Bay...Class "C" under the CYVR Terminal Class"C"...sorry that's Boundary Bay. How could I ever make that mistake????

so much for my theory

[North Shore]

Besides, if I want to go to Sydney, do I type SYD, YQY, YSSY, YSBK, YYJ, CYQY, YSRI, or CYYJ...it's just so precise using aeronautical abbreviators...

Sydney might well be SYD, YQY,YSSY, YSBK etc.. but Sidney is right next to CYYJ.

[Just Duckie]

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Sydney might well be SYD, YQY,YSSY, YSBK etc.. but S[b][u]i[/u][/b]dney is right next to CYYJ.[/quote]


Are you homesick???? because for a guy on holidays, you sure are on here lots!!!

[Tim]

You see adding an explaination to an airport identifier as dumbing it down and hand holding.

no, as i said before i deem it laziness. i am too lazy to write out the whole thing. you are too lazy to look it up. we are both lazy, but you started bitching.

[VikVaughan]

It would be cool if there were a system like the one on the airliners.net where the forum automatically recognizes identifiers and underlines them. Then when you put your mouse over it, it pops up the name of the airport.

[Intentional Left Bank]

Even the people at TC don't expect that all pilots will know where an airport is just by its identifier...

Excuse me Engineguy, who is "TC"? I don't want to have to look it up. Thx. ILB.

[linecrew]

...Even TC cant get it right, they recently called CYYZ LBPIA in a report, so we have moved CYYZ to Portugal? would be a nicer climate I must admit!

Not sure what you mean...CYYZ is in fact LBPIA.

LBPIA = Lester B. Pearson International Airport.

[iflyforpie]

ICAO?

[square]

Droppin' TLAs, gettin' BOD

[linecrew]

Linecrew, Im sorry but you miss the point, there is NO SUCH AIRPORT as LBPIA, period, TC used the local totally stupid designator on an international document, nobody outside of Toronto has a bloody clue where LPBIA is or was, thats why we have standard ICAO designators, and by the way, most folks dont care where Toronto is, including most Canadians.

Heh heh...right, so you have very strong feelings against using abbreviations of airport names in place of proper ICAO idents, I get it. I doubt whomever wrote the repot you refer to intended LBPIA to be an ident but rather a lazy person at TC that didn't feel like writing out Toronto Lester B. Pearon International Airport...either way there's no excuse for it I guess.

I agree with you that the naming of airports is the most assinine practice out there. Next time I go to YYZ I'm going to call up Malton Tower and when I go to CYUL I'll call up Dorval Tower...I wonder if they will be insulted. Have you seen the name they gave Moose Jaw? It's now called "Moose Jaw/Air Vice Marshal C.M.McEwen SK". Keep that in mind when you see a report for AVMCMMcE.

[Benwa]

regarding YUL
I usually call them Dorval Tower... I just can't get it into my head that it's now "Trudeau". I do call it "PET" (fart in english") every now and then though.

[jeta1]

the overabundance of acronyms in our industry is legendary.

[prop2jet]

http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html

[Tim]

did knowing that the incident took place in YUL change anything about it?

when i started reading this thread i thought it sounded familiar.

so i went and found an old thread.

turns out it was ALSO started by you.

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=50274

you are judging the very competence of people, based on their off-duty, internet ramblings and comparing them to tc based on an offcial publication. no body is making your read the threads. no one is stopping you from looking idents up on your own, like the rest of us do. i wonder how many idents you could have looked up during the time it took you to climb up on your pedestal and berate a bunch of people youve never met.

[Cat Driver]

FOOL is also an airport identifier, and of course everyone here knows where it is.

[iflyforpie]

Libreville Gabon! (0.20 seconds on Google). And yes, I can locate it on a map.

[Cat Driver]

AAahhhh true, but have you been there?

[linecrew]

AAahhhh true, but have you been there?

Do the people at FOOL speak FOOLish?

[Cat Driver]

Do the people at FOOL speak FOOLish?

No the official language is French. ( Note:....... Not Quebecois French.)

[Epsilon]

regarding YUL
I usually call them Dorval Tower... I just can't get it into my head that it's now "Trudeau". I do call it "PET" (fart in english") every now and then though.

Same here, I just can't get used to saying ''Trudeau tower''. ATC corrected me the last time I used ''Dorval Tower'' (last week). So now I just say ''Montreal Tower'' and everyone is happy.

[Finn47]

In some parts of Europe the 4 letter codes almost make sense. Like:

ESSA Europe Sweden Stockholm Arlanda
ENGM Europe Norway (Oslo) GarderMoen
EFHK Europe Finland HelsinKi International
EHAM Europe Holland AMsterdam

EDDH might be Europe Deutschland (Hamburg)
Since the Germans got the D, Denmark was left with K:
EKCH Europe Denmark Copenhagen

a bit more logical than the Canadian codes, eh

[just curious]

ICAO

Yeah, it's just north of CYHU, near the IATA