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Old 25th Feb 2004, 18:18
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eyeinthesky
 
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These are 5 letter points in space which aircraft use to navigate, they are usually something to do with a town or city nearby, for example LOMON is overhead Loch Lomond in Scotland, sometimes they don't make any sense at all, these are usually points in space situated over the sea, I may be wrong but I think that there are points over the North Sea called KOMIK, BEENO and DANDI (BEENO and DANDI are comic books in the UK)

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Not any more they aren't! We are now forced to use names which are nigh-on unpronouncable and are drawn from the ICAO database. We have IDESI, LAPRA, ENITO and so on which bear no resemblance to anything.

As for KOMIK, BEENO, DANDI, I think you need to have a look at a map, Can I Play. They went out when North Sea was resectorised almost a year ago.
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