Waypoint naming
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Waypoint naming
Waypoint names (such as for Victor airways) often seem random, obscure, or weird and are sometimes not readily pronounceable (at least for non-native speakers of English).
I certainly don't want to make a possible trivial topic complicated, but I'm genuinely curious about the following:
1. Who's in charge of naming them (US, UK)?
2. What's the basis or guidelines for naming them? In other words, is there a naming scheme or any other rules or logic to it?
3. Are there rules / expected way to pronounce them, or "just as close as a native English / American speaker would say it"?
I certainly don't want to make a possible trivial topic complicated, but I'm genuinely curious about the following:
1. Who's in charge of naming them (US, UK)?
2. What's the basis or guidelines for naming them? In other words, is there a naming scheme or any other rules or logic to it?
3. Are there rules / expected way to pronounce them, or "just as close as a native English / American speaker would say it"?
Last edited by Zonkor; 9th July 2013 at 19:16.
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I presume the intention is simply that they all sound like fairly unique words when read out. Most of the ones round here bear some vague relationship to their physical locale as well.
You always have the fallback of reading them phonetically?
You always have the fallback of reading them phonetically?
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In practice, it is now very difficult to obtain locally relevant named points, as most of the good English language ones have already been bagged, and there are regional constraints as well as worldwide.
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In practice, it is now very difficult to obtain locally relevant named points, as most of the good English language ones have already been bagged, and there are regional constraints as well as worldwide.
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There's certainly a logic to these waypoints 
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00678R16.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00736R1.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00678R16.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00736R1.PDF
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I am not sure about taking the fun out ... I am sure I once found a couple called ARFUR and DALEY.
Found the reference. They are (were ?) near Manchester
Keep up lads ... it was only on Proon 12 years ago
Strange waypoint names [Archive] - PPRuNe Forums
Found the reference. They are (were ?) near Manchester
Keep up lads ... it was only on Proon 12 years ago
Strange waypoint names [Archive] - PPRuNe Forums
Last edited by Dave Gittins; 11th July 2013 at 13:00.
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There's certainly a logic to these waypoints
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00678R16.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00736R1.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00678R16.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1307/00736R1.PDF
Also, not sure how they got away with NAKID ( 49° 42' 54N 4° 37' 23W)!
), at least one is/was an ATCO memorial, some were beers (ADNAM etc), and there's been a few admirals on the South Coast (BENBO, DRAKE etc).
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Not forgetting THRED and NEDUL on the approach to SOU from the south.
The Concorde Acceleration point (now sadly no longer needed) in the Bristol Channel was UPGAS, which I guess describes what used to happen there.
The Concorde Acceleration point (now sadly no longer needed) in the Bristol Channel was UPGAS, which I guess describes what used to happen there.
