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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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I challenge you to demonstrate that in fact it is more reliable to use
the
municipality name than the airport name to address the tower. All you
have to do is produce a list of every towered airport in the US,
including
their name, the municipality, and the name used to address the tower and
calculate the percentage of that list in which the airport name matches
the tower address, and in which the municipality name matches the tower
address. If your rule is the correct one, then the percentage of matches
for the municipality name will be greater than the percentage of matches
for the airport name.

I'm sure that you cannot provide this data.


Of course I can. Let's start, for no particular reason whatsoever, with
the great state of Washington: [snipped]

Your analysis is flawed. You are answering the question you'd prefer to
answer, not the one that was put to you.

The point is not how often the tower is addressed using the name of the
municipality, but rather that figure compared to how often the tower is
addressed using the name of the airport itself. If you'd bothered to read
my post, you would have seen that was the point. I've quoted the relevant
text from my post, as quoted in YOUR post, so that you can more easily see
what you missed.

Further, you have at least one error in your list: Tacoma Narrows Airport is
addressed as "Tacoma Narrows Tower", not "Tacoma Tower" (and when the tower
closes, it's "Tacoma Narrows Traffic"...often it's shortened by pilots to
just "Narrows"). That puts the Washington State number at practically
50/50, hardly enough to justify "usually", even if that was the challenge
that I made to you. Which it was not.

There are probably other errors in your data as well, but I'm confident that
if you bother to go back and perform the analysis I actually challenged you
to perform, you'll find that using the airport name provides the right
answer more often than using the municipality name.

Pete