Vortex watsit,
It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to have an airfield marked on aviation charts with the original and well-known name "Abingdon" but then to place a NOTAM request for pilots to avoid the place but calling it "Dalton Barracks, Oxfordshire" instead.
The point I was making, which you perhaps couldn't see, was that pilots planning a flight do NOT know (or even care) where a barracks is. I for one am not in the habit of making a ground recce of my proposed route before I fly it.....
Call 'em what you like for Landrovers and tanks.
And yes, I know the lat and long are there but it's far better to make it obvious what the requested avoid actually is based on. And then we can all jump to the dozens of other important NOTAMS warning about birds of prey that might be flying to and from kites etc.
With regard to the naming of RAF stations by the nearest railway station. They had to break the tradition with RAF Odiham; the nearest one is HOOK station.
Can we say RAF HOOK?
