Funny A/C Regs. or ICAO Location Indicators

[BobAgg]

U experienced (old) guys' and gals' out there must have seen a few funny regs. or ICAO Designators' in your time?

Saw a departure point the other day somewhere in the US of A with the designator being KLIT, which heralded a few "phnarr phnarrs'" around the ops room!

Also once saw a pic of a german registered C172 with the reg.
D-EEFY!

And not forgetting Old farmer McDonald in Ireland somewhere with his cropsprayer reg. E-IEIO

Cheers

Bob!

[M609]

"D-ICKS" :E

A Dornier seaplane!

http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages/Rarebird/Images/1397.jpg

Had the pleasure of controlling it back in 00, triggered a few giggles on the freq..... :p

[Fletchers Left Boot]

Seem to remember there is an airfield somewhere in Bolivia with the designator "SLAG" :ooh:

[MATZ]

There is a twin Squirrel out there with G-NUTS

MATZ :p

[DeltaoneZero]

I have had one called G-TENT come in once, to which the tower obviously had to say to the guy, ''for over night parking, you can pitch it over there'' !

On the funny R/T call-ups, i have had a guy call-up, been given the details and then asked me to repeat the info becuase he and i quote ''Had no lead in his pencil'' :)

[Scott Voigt]

KLIT, good old Little Rock, Arkansas...

Scott

Oh, we don\'t use the K over here unless it is on an ICAO flight plan...

[Little One]

how about Libraville's ICAO Designator = FOOL
In SA a DHL C208 Z SLT commonly called the Slut

[newswatcher]

Oh that the Dornier should visit Parma in Italy - LIMP! :D :D

[eyeinthesky]

When Easyjet used their alpha numeric callsigns we got EZY 5LT which looked amusing on the radar labels..

or EZY 5HT...

[tangofox]

On the VOR approach into Boca Raton, Florida the FAF is named UGLEE. Funny when you got cleared for the approach "... N123AB, 3 miles from UGLEE..." etc

Further south, somewhere south of the Florida Keyes if I remember correctly there is a waypoint called DROWN.... somebody with a sarcastic sense of humour must have come up with that one....

[flyhardmo]

In Malabo , Equatorial Guinea the IAF is called AMPUS which some of the boys called AMC@NT.

[forevertraining]

good one for the ICAO designators bob agg check up RJFE been muttered a few times during som runs.

[Pie Man]

RC-135 used to leave controlled airspace to the open FIR in the Clacton area to refuel enroute Offutt AFB in America. The flight strip read - CLN FIR KOFF

PM

[VectorLine]

seen recently on S15 (DOVER for the old lads!);

IBENT - a bit queer that one :}

and Bexil160's favourite

GBL05T - coming 'up the hill' via GUBAR

Didn't see this one myself so it might be a LACC myth - there was a USAF tanker callsign - W4NK1..... except an 'A' instead of a 4


or what about the reporting points in Scottish FIR...........

ITSUX MADAD

[Whipping Boy's SATCO]

Ther used to be a biz-jet type thing floating around Germany in the late 80's:

D-ILDO

[Yankee_Doodle_Floppy_Disk]

New Reporting point in NZ:

New Reporting Point and Holding Pattern on H235 TASMAN REP ? TR VOR,
and New ATS Route H463
Effective: 10 JUN 04
Effective 10 JUN 04 (0406091200UTC) a compulsory reporting point (BOLOX) and
a holding pattern are established at the intersection of H235 TASMAN REP/TR VOR
and R050 from NS VOR, a new ATS RTE is also established between the reporting point and NS VOR.
New reporting point:
The following new reporting point has been established:-
BOLOX S41 08 01.67 E173 53 51.04
New holding pattern at BOLOX:
MSA 6100ft
Inbound to TR VOR 077
Left hand 21NM - 26NM
New ATS route:
H463 R050 from NS VOR to BOLOX REP MSA 6100ft Dist 32NM
The holding pattern and route data will be published on the WELLINGTON ARC.

So now a controller can tell you to "HOLD BOLOX".

Not as much fun as HOLDing BEVER up Napier way.
:D

[West Coast]

Rapid City South Dakota...KRAP

Accurate in more ways than one.

[Continental-520]

I'm still waiting for an Australian airport to be issued with the ICAO code 'YMCA'.


520.

[rotorblades]

An ex Mil controller of mine was talking about his old experiences during the times of the USSR cold war & all the US Mil was still flying around they used to go on excercises..
one of which was
'Excercise Pink Mussel'

& RAF F-4 Phantoms had a callsign ''Giver Formation''
(Giver 1 & Giver2)

[Mighty Mariner]

Hope you enjoy these. A moderately inspirational nightshift.
One for any young parents:
ITSUX, BUSOM, ALOTI
I was also WELIN with BINBO's MARGO and KATHY
Do you have a RIVOT in your NAVEL?
If the company is paying do you ASKAM for FORTY LARGA's
and is the North East really an OTBED for GOLES

Time to go I think!!

[Inverted81]

good resource...
Go look at the CAA's G-INFO database at www.srg.caa.co.uk had a play at searching some four letter ID's and they all seem to be registered with hot air balloons.... why?????? eg:

G-BOOB
G-K*ob
G-SEXY was cancelled for some reason... dont know why!! :*

etc etc.... very funny! :)

C

[Little One]

In Oz I saw LARRY CURLY and MOOWE (the three stuges) as entry points to the IORRA

[AirNoServicesAustralia]

Dunno if the points are still there but the 3 waypoints out to the West of Perth were LARRY, CURLY and MOEOE (can't remember how they spelt that one but something like that). Jerricho would also just love one of the points into Melbourne, WENDY. If only you'd shagged her she may have given you an easier time :E

[javelin]

If you at Manchester, take a look at the Atlanta 747 TF-ARS. We also used to have a DC10 in Scandinavia registered OY-CNT ;)