Airports w/ multiple names

Roger Roger said:
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).
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On you next PASI trip I want to hear the full Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport when you report in.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Minot is "Magic City"

Nothing magic about that place.
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Have you asked the tower why it's called Magic City yet? I'm not sure if they still have it, but they used to play a cassette tape explaining it for pilot's who asked. The cassette had been played so many times that it comes out as an unintelligible mess.
 
A major alternate airport for hundreds of heavy metal aircraft every day:

Robert H Stanfield International
 
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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Just as an FYI/trivia information - Scott AFB (I believe) is the only military installation named after an enlisted soldier.

http://www.scott.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=260
 
spikethebest said:
what about KSNA, john wayne or santa ana, or orange county airport.
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I've been guilty of calling them "John Wayne Orange County Santa Ana Tower" (mostly because I couldn't remember what the Name of The Week was). The proper term, assuming my charts are right, is actually John Wayne.
 
When I saw Bill and Hillary National airport pop up on something I was reading I about fell over in my chair. klit I feel sorry for you
 
If it's busy, all you have to do is listen on the radio for a short period to hear how ATC or other pilots refer to it .

If it's not busy, it probably doesn't matter what you call it. ;)
 
GSP is a good example. It's the Greenville/Spartanburg airport, but it is physically located in Greer, SC. It's "Greer approach," etc.
 
KSQI - Sterling Whiteside - Bittorf County, depending if you look in the AF/D or on the Sectional. Most call it Whiteside area traffic, but I have students who will say "Sterling Whiteside Bittorf County area traffic" which at that same time someone who wanted to make a call cuz they're on fire is now dead...
 
Uhhhhh Atlanta William B. Hartsfield, Jackson, Franklin, Kaufman, McKinney, Young, King, Obama international......Merlin 69ST 14 thousand.
 
Santa Ana, John Wayne or Orange County. They answer to all of them.

I'd think the ATIS would give you a pretty good idea however.
 
Landed at DAY recently... forgot they were "Columbus Approach" ever since the facilities were combined. I fly out of Willow Run Airport ("Willow Run Tower" as it's officially) in Ypsilanti, MI... Frequently hear the controllers sigh when a transient pilot calls up "Yipsalantee Tower". Our next-door neighbor, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport uses just "Metro Tower"....

I typically just listen to whatever everyone else is calling it. The non-towered fields can get tricky sometimes.
 
rd757 said:
Landed at DAY recently... forgot they were "Columbus Approach" ever since the facilities were combined. I fly out of Willow Run Airport ("Willow Run Tower" as it's officially) in Ypsilanti, MI... Frequently hear the controllers sigh when a transient pilot calls up "Yipsalantee Tower". Our next-door neighbor, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport uses just "Metro Tower"....

I typically just listen to whatever everyone else is calling it. The non-towered fields can get tricky sometimes.
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LOL! I've been the @$$hole that just said "Yip tower" ... yeah... whoops...
 
The proper way to address the tower is published on the airport diagram. NACO, Jepp, LIDO...doesn't matter, they all have it.
 
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