"akiley" wrote in message
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Question A: I'm trying to get fast and accurate at programming routes
(and possible reroutes) into the KLN94 and G1000 navigators our club
planes are equipped with. I was wondering, does ATC usually give you
the VOR 3 letter ID or the full name? If it's the full name and it's
unfamiliar territory, do you just ask them to spell all VOR and fix
names? Or do you write down the full name longhand then try to find
the match on the chart. I fly a lot of local and they seem to say the
full VOR name.


Full name. You can certainly ask for the identifier.



Question B: How do you know what an airport is *called*? If it has an
IAP you can see it's called "Jackson Tower". (Jackson, MI, KJXN) If
you use a gov VFR chart, or Jepps LOW you would only know to call it
"Jackson County Reynolds tower". Lansing Michigan's airport name is
"Capital City", but it's Lansing Tower on the Jepps IAP. Sees this
could add a layer of confusion when the tower is closed and someone
that doesn't know the area is reporting final Capital City. Why do
they have airport names, but not necessarily use them?


You're speaking of two different things. Airports have names, and control
towers have names, but the control tower and airport don't necessarily have
the same name. The name of the ATC facility at JXN is "Jackson Tower", not
"Jackson County Reynolds tower".