Airports w/ multiple names

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lifter123

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Does anyone have a source in the FAR/AIM as to what we are supposed to be calling airports over the radio? Often times they are listed seperately on sectionals vs. the city.

The airport might be in the city of Stickville, and the sectional will say Johnson County Airport. Transients will usually call it by the sectional name; however the local crowd will call it Stickville. It gets confusing sometimes when you are not from one or the other.

Another example is Beaumont, TX. On the sectional it says Brooks. I called it Brooks one day, the controller came back rather peeved, saying it's !Beaumont Tower!

Just curious.
 
Just say, "tower", "approach", or "center". Non specific because each little municipality wants to have a handing naming airports. Like Fayetteville/ Rogers/ Springdale/ NW Arkansas Regional Airport; good luck trying to find that chart!
 
Skåning said:
Just say, "tower", "approach", or "center". Non specific because each little municipality wants to have a handing naming airports. Like Fayetteville/ Rogers/ Springdale/ NW Arkansas Regional Airport; good luck trying to find that chart!
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You mean Walmart Tower?
 
State College airport in PA has two identifiers SCE/UNV. (Omay N.) Bradley airport in Windsor Locks CT, serves the Hartford area...
 
Hammertime said: "(Omay N.) Bradley airport in Windsor Locks CT, serves the Hartford area... "

Bradley International Airport (BDL) is named for Army Air Corps LT Eugene M. Bradley of Antlers, OK (!) who was the first fatality at the field on August 21, 1941. He was in dogfight training when his P-40 crashed. The wreckage is under the end of current Rwy 33, w/o LT Bradley, who is in the San Antonio Military Cemetery.

BDL joined a not-short list of airfields named for Air Corps pilots who crashed while in training. (I'm not aware of any named for guys who busted a checkride, or pranged a sim session.) It probably sounded better and more patriotic during WWII.

You are probably thinking of Army General Omar N. Bradley (INF), one of Ike's key assistants in the European theater of WWII. No relation, I believe.
 
Pet peeve...

A few years ago, the airport in Lexington, Kentucky was renamed. Old name: Bluegrass Field. New name: Bluegrass Airport.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is called The Bluegrass State, and that turf grass grows all over the place. In fields!

Did anyone seriously think that the runways were still grass? They didn't even paint them green on St Patrick's Day. No one grazed either thoroughbreds or standard-breds on the airport grounds.

At about the same time, a new terminal building had painted cast-iron jockey statues (3-4 ft high) installed by ground-level gates. These figures were traditional hitching posts, and had a ring in their hands to tie up your horse. Never did see a DC-9, BAC-111 or the like, tied up to one.
 
Use the name on the airport diagram for towered airports. For non-towered I usually default to the city name as that's more likely to get the attention of another confused transient. But to answer your question I don't know where that's written (if anywhere).
 
Skåning said:
Just say, "tower", "approach", or "center". Non specific because each little municipality wants to have a handing naming airports. Like Fayetteville/ Rogers/ Springdale/ NW Arkansas Regional Airport; good luck trying to find that chart!
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Eh, fine, but if you call the wrong facility, they won't know that you've called the wrong one until they do some rummaging around. Proper facility names are on the Jepp plates or somewhere in the A/FD if you don't have Jepps. (They're awkwardly missing or just not clearly depicted on sectionals, I think.)
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Bud01 said:
You mean Walmart Tower?
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I seem to remember that one is "Fayetteville" - but that was a while back.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Eh, fine, but if you call the wrong facility, they won't know that you've called the wrong one until they do some rummaging around. Proper facility names are on the Jepp plates or somewhere in the A/FD if you don't have Jepps. (They're awkwardly missing or just not clearly depicted on sectionals, I think.)

Condition levers - MAX RPM.
Kevlar vests - Checked L/R

I seem to remember that one is "Fayetteville" - but that was a while back.
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I just looked, according to the chart it's "Northwest Arkansas Regional Tower". That's ridiculous... I personally liked the old home 'drome: EasTex Tower. Short and to the point.
 
FloridaLarry said:
Hammertime said: "(Omay N.) Bradley airport in Windsor Locks CT, serves the Hartford area... "

Bradley International Airport (BDL) is named for Army Air Corps LT Eugene M. Bradley of Antlers, OK (!) who was the first fatality at the field on August 21, 1941. He was in dogfight training when his P-40 crashed. The wreckage is under the end of current Rwy 33, w/o LT Bradley, who is in the San Antonio Military Cemetery.

BDL joined a not-short list of airfields named for Air Corps pilots who crashed while in training. (I'm not aware of any named for guys who busted a checkride, or pranged a sim session.) It probably sounded better and more patriotic during WWII.

You are probably thinking of Army General Omar N. Bradley (INF), one of Ike's key assistants in the European theater of WWII. No relation, I believe.
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Huh, ya learn something everyday!
 
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