Airport name on CTAF

Deelee said:
At least folks at these airports are announcing on CTAF instead of barreling in on a straight-in final in an aircraft that I know has two working radios that probably cost more than my car.
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You drive a Bugatti?
 
My local field has three seemingly interchangeable names, Henry County, Tara Field and Speedway. All are used. Initially it bothered me but it seems to work. I think it is worth noting a visitor would only use and (more dangerously, only know) the name on the sectional/foreflight.
 
wilkersk said:
say whats printed on the sectional, or chart supplement. The guys with the "local knowledge" will correct you and, thats OK. No acknowledgment is necessary.

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Except for KBVS. Its pronounced "Skad-jit", not "Skag-it" dangit, ....knock that silly stuff off!

Oh, and for the real 'old-timers', its ok to call it "Bayview". We understand.
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I notice that PLU says "Puyallup" on the IFR chart, but not on the sectional.

There's a pronunciation that ought to blow their minds! :D
 
Stan Cooper said:
KSTS is labeled "Charles M Schulz - Sonoma Co" on the sectional, but on CTAF when the tower is closed it's "Santa Rosa Traffic."

If you want to say "Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Traffic" nobody will correct you.
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Given that
Dana said:
Count your blessings, you could be dealing with out of towners trying to pronounce "Poughkeepsie"...

I used to fly out of CPS... back then it was "Bi-State Parks" and you called, "Bi-State tower", but nowadays do you call it "St Louis" (it's not in St. Louis) or "Downtown"? "St Louis Downtown tower" sounds like a lot to say.
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"Downtown" is what is listed in the Chart Supplement for communicating with the tower at CPS.
 
Palmpilot said:
"Doo-shane"?
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I believe so. Or perhaps Du-Shane. Depending on the person. They say “mountain” funny around here also along with a few other things.

Here’s a guide to 20 utah words if you are bored. Some are common like the creek/crick thing.
 
Years ago the bound edition of the NOS approach plates organized the airports by airport name, not city. One time I was looking for the approach for Fox Field (WJF) in Lancaster CA. It wasn't under 'L' for Lancaster; nor 'F' for Fox, nor 'W' for William J. Fox Field.

It was under 'G'.

... For General William J. Fox Airfield, thankyouverymuch.

:rolleyes:
 
Palmpilot said:
I notice that PLU says "Puyallup" on the IFR chart, but not on the sectional.

There's a pronunciation that ought to blow their minds! :D
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That's "Thun Field" (or Pierce County). Folks from the south do seem to get a kick out of "Poo y'all up" though.
 
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Cluemeister said:
Flew into KPXE, Perry-Houston, south of Atlanta a few years ago. "Perry-Houston traffic, blah blah". A moment later someone responds "It's Perry-Howston". If he was messing with me, I didn't second guess, and said "Howston" the rest of the way in and then out.
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It is indeed "Howston." I've got a friend who's based there. And it certainly does sound weird for us out-of-towners!
 
iamtheari said:
For those not from the area, KMOT's tower is called MAGIC CITY TOWER because MINOT TOWER is located at the nearby KMIB Minot Air Force Base. And the Chart Supplement provides that name. It pays to actually read the Chart Supplement before you fly to any airport for the first time.
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On a totally different frequency and never as a CTAF...

iamtheari said:
Is there an actual regulation that makes CTAF calls mandatory in Class D-reverted-to-E airspace when the tower is closed?
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Funny you mentioned that "It pays to actually read the Chart Supplement before you fly to any airport for the first time." when what you really should have said was ""It pays to actually read the Chart Supplement every time before you fly to any airport." :p

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It started as an over reach by the city (the same city that has effectively outlawed independent flight instructors by enforcing an 60+ year old city ordanance that does not allow anyone to do business on the airport unless you have a physical business on the airport property) and has apparently be codified into quasi-regulation by being published in the Chart Supplement.
 
Pilawt said:
Years ago the bound edition of the NOS approach plates organized the airports by airport name, not city. One time I was looking for the approach for Fox Field (WJF) in Lancaster CA. It wasn't under 'L' for Lancaster; nor 'F' for Fox, nor 'W' for William J. Fox Field.

It was under 'G'.

... For General William J. Fox Airfield, thankyouverymuch.

:rolleyes:
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Reminds me of putting a destination "address" into a European automotive GPS.
 
SoCal RV Flyer said:
It is indeed "Howston." I've got a friend who's based there. And it certainly does sound weird for us out-of-towners!
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Brings to mind a maddening conversation I had with a jackass sheriff's dispatcher in Minnesota. I was trying to make a report in person about an incident that happened near Bakus. This jackass kept pretending that he did not understand what (where) I was talking about, even though it was a town less than 20 miles away from where we were at the time.

My "mistake" was that I was pronouncing it "Baw-cuss". It was not until about 15 minutes in the jackass finally said, "Ohhhh.... You mean BACK-us..."

Did I mention he was a jackass?
 
smv said:
Brings to mind a maddening conversation I had with a jackass sheriff's dispatcher in Minnesota. I was trying to make a report in person about an incident that happened near Bakus. This jackass kept pretending that he did not understand what (where) I was talking about, even though it was a town less than 20 miles away from where we were at the time.

My "mistake" was that I was pronouncing it "Baw-cuss". It was not until about 15 minutes in the jackass finally said, "Ohhhh.... You mean BACK-us..."

Did I mention he was a jackass?
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Wouldn't that be pronounced "jack-us"? ;)
 
Dana said:
I used to fly out of CPS... back then it was "Bi-State Parks" and you called, "Bi-State tower", but nowadays do you call it "St Louis" (it's not in St. Louis) or "Downtown"? "St Louis Downtown tower" sounds like a lot to say.
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I believe approach did indeed tell me to call "st louis downtown tower".

Besides being a mouthful, it also sounds a bit pretentious, for an airport located in the hard-scrabble town of Cahokia Illinois, home of tattoo parlors and paycheck lending shops.

If I could call it as I please, I would call it Cahokia.
 
South County Airport (E16 - Southeast of San Jose, CA) had its name changed to San Martin. Some of us still call it South County on occasion.
 
I want to build an airport. I will call it, ''Hoof Hearted Airport''.

There should be some interesting pronunciations for those who speak too fast on the radio.....
 
Palmpilot said:
I notice that PLU says "Puyallup" on the IFR chart, but not on the sectional.

There's a pronunciation that ought to blow their minds! :D
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It is always fun to listen to non-locals try to spit that out. Most just say Pierce County or Thun Field to make it easy.
 
Van Johnston said:
nope

“Mustang Beach traffic”
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Yep, the Port A/Rockport thing didn't make sense at all. I figured he meant "Aransas Co.", which would make sense to be "Rockport Traffic" since it's in Rockport.
 
red4golf said:
It is always fun to listen to non-locals try to spit that out. Most just say Pierce County or Thun Field to make it easy.
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I can imagine.

It's a good thing there's no Geoduck Airport.
 
Palmpilot said:
I can imagine.

It's a good thing there's no Geoduck Airport.
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If I ever have enough land to build a small airstrip I'm going to use that name, thank you for the idea! This state has places like Hukelchuck, Humptulips and Pend Oreille and I always get a chuckle out of listening to visitors.
 
Or, just as bad...maybe worse...those who don't end their transmission with a repeat of the airfield name.
 
red4golf said:
It is always fun to listen to non-locals try to spit that out. Most just say Pierce County or Thun Field to make it easy.
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You would have a LOT of fun flying along the Na Pali coast on Kauai.... All the tour operators are making postition reports that, even after seven years in the islands, I could not understand at all. I stayed up at 4000 feet and let them have their fun down low. :D
 
Will Kumley said:
I actually want to fly to Walla Walla (ALW) one day just o I can say Walla Walla on the radio. I've only been in Washington a year and a half and some of these names are quite entertaining to me. Others are downright confusing. Quillayute is one I'd have to look up the pronunciation before I planned to fly there for sure. Of course, I flew to Hoqium and called it Hoqium on the radio instead of Bowerman, oops.
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I still call it Hoqium when I fly in there. Nobody has ever complained. Now, with Lana's no longer on the field there's no reason to go there. My weight and balance appreciate that.

wilkersk said:
OK, we need to have a PNW language primer. Sekiu is "CQ", Sequim is "Squim" (like Squid, but with an M). And Quillayute (kwi-lee-yute), ...I believe that's a word that crazy French-Canadian-Norwegian-Russian settlers kinda-sorta interpreted from it's indian name for the tribe of Chimacuan indians that were invaded and basically assimilated by the Makah indians under Chief Seattle.
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You shouldn't give away the secret of Sequim. :p

wilkersk said:
Reminds me of putting a destination "address" into a European automotive GPS.
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I remember a number of years ago renting a car in Germany that had all the GPS instructions, including the spoken ones, in German. Fortunately I could remember enough high school German (from the late 1960s) to use it, but it was a challenge.

Back to local names. How do you out of state people pronounce the name of KYKM? :D
 
smv said:
You would have a LOT of fun flying along the Na Pali coast on Kauai.... All the tour operators are making postition reports that, even after seven years in the islands, I could not understand at all. I stayed up at 4000 feet and let them have their fun down low. :D
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I would be happy to fly around that area and kill the pronunciation of those places.
 
Ghery said:
I still call it Hoqium when I fly in there. Nobody has ever complained. Now, with Lana's no longer on the field there's no reason to go there. My weight and balance appreciate that.



You shouldn't give away the secret of Sequim. :p



I remember a number of years ago renting a car in Germany that had all the GPS instructions, including the spoken ones, in German. Fortunately I could remember enough high school German (from the late 1960s) to use it, but it was a challenge.

Back to local names. How do you out of state people pronounce the name of KYKM? :D
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I was stationed in Germany and had a HS education of the language with a Swedish Grandma that forgot English after a stroke. The two are close enough that I could understand her but the more I learned of either language, the more confused I became with either.

Sequim is funny but KYKM is where I spent the last few years of my Army time as a tanker and people kill that name... You can clearly identify the newly arrived from the natural Washingtonians...
 
smv said:
You would have a LOT of fun flying along the Na Pali coast on Kauai.... All the tour operators are making postition reports that, even after seven years in the islands, I could not understand at all. I stayed up at 4000 feet and let them have their fun down low. :D
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And that is the reason that I never have gotten checked out and then flown solo in Hawaii. I just take the CFI along. They make great tour guides and can pronounce all those reporting points on the radio. I've been to Hawaii well over 20 times and I still would butcher them if I tried.
 
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