EGLL Holding Points
...okay I get OSTER and HORKA and maybe even LOKKI if it's short for Lockheed, and all the planets/space-related points. Where do ETTIV and MORRA come from? I know I should get out more but I do spend quite a lot of time remote holding in these places these days.
Answers on a postcard sB :8 |
I believe ETTIV and MORRA alude to the Scottish names of the daughters of a senior BAA Manager.
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Etive and Morar are a couple of Lochs up here in Scotland
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Etive Moor in the Western highlands:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...n/278etive.jpg Not too many dark secrets involved. |
So no connection with Sod'em and G'MORRA ? :E
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LOKKI = Loch Lochy,
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Etive mor wikipedia link
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So why have we got scottish lochs at Heathrow?
Lets send LOKKI & ETTIV to EGPH and get some local names. How about STANZ, EDWAD, WRSBY - Staines, King Edward VI & Wraysbury lochs, i mean reservoirs! B***** Scots trying to take over the planet! T'bug :ok: |
They'll be for the new Lomond1 SID at LHR.
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Seems like a good excuse to pimp some of my photography...
http://neodude.smugmug.com/photos/142906598-M-2.jpg More can be seen on My Website. Very reasonable prices on prints btw :ok: |
Ta for clearing that up.
Agree with Thunderbug.. can we have ANSLA, FELTM, and HESTN instead. American 171 "Gee where the hell is LOBSTER, it isn't on our chart" |
MORRA never gets used. ETTIV often gets read back as ACTIVE. OSTER mostly gets read back as OSCAR. Great idea whoever thought of them!!
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Great idea whoever thought of them!! |
What's HORKA then? :uhoh: beyond my ken.
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Never heard of an ORKA UNTER ? ;)
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Slight thread creep, I know, but who named the points on the Medwy P-RNAV procedures for 27L and R, then??? I take it he's not a Man U fan....?! ;)
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MORRA never gets used. ETTIV often gets read back as ACTIVE. OSTER mostly gets read back as OSCAR. Great idea whoever thought of them!! Bleedin' stupid! :ugh: |
Spitoon,
Welcome to Heathrow!:ugh: Even now, years after their introduction we still get crews mistakenly reading back 'Active' and 'Echo' for ETTIV: 'Oscar', 'Ulster' and others instead of OSTER. Up until recently we had ROKIT as a 27R hold and LOKKI as a 27L hold, which used to get mixed up quite a few times an hour. |
Aaahhh.. come back the days of Block 87, Block 79, Block 81....
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Slight thread creep, I know, but who named the points on the Medwy P-RNAV procedures for 27L and R, then??? I take it he's not a Man U fan....?! |
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