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Jepps airport and VOR names ... how used?
"John R. Copeland" wrote in message . .. "Allan9" wrote in message ... "And so on" indeed. In 1956, the Columbus, Ohio zoo had the first gorilla baby ever born in captivity. Shortly after, our VOR was renamed APE (Appleton). No it wasn't. Columbus VOR was located about three miles SSE of New Albany. Appleton VOR is about four miles SSE of Appleton. I think the choice of designator was more likely influenced by the name of the nearby community than by any recent birth at the zoo. |
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Jepps airport and VOR names ... how used?
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net...
"John R. Copeland" wrote in message . .. "Allan9" wrote in message ... "And so on" indeed. In 1956, the Columbus, Ohio zoo had the first gorilla baby ever born in captivity. Shortly after, our VOR was renamed APE (Appleton). No it wasn't. Columbus VOR was located about three miles SSE of New Albany. Appleton VOR is about four miles SSE of Appleton. I think the choice of designator was more likely influenced by the name of the nearby community than by any recent birth at the zoo. You're correct about the locations, Steven, but in 1956 the stated reason for the location change was the construction of a 720,000-volt electrical power line whose right-of-way passed very near the old VOR location. (That line was one of the earliest 720kV lines in the U.S.) That region is the highest elevation in the county, and the move was said to guard against reflections from the towers and the massive conductors of the lines. If not for commemoration of the birth of Colo, I didn't think a change in name was particularly mandated from moving the VOR by maybe 5 miles or so. I guessed at the time that somebody searched hard to locate a little burg in the vicinity which could "justify" the APE designation. :-) |
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Jepps airport and VOR names ... how used?
"John R. Copeland" wrote in message ... You're correct about the locations, Steven, but in 1956 the stated reason for the location change was the construction of a 720,000-volt electrical power line whose right-of-way passed very near the old VOR location. I said nothing about the reason a new VOR site was needed. My point was just that the VOR had not been renamed. |
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Jepps airport and VOR names ... how used?
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net...
"John R. Copeland" wrote in message ... You're correct about the locations, Steven, but in 1956 the stated reason for the location change was the construction of a 720,000-volt electrical power line whose right-of-way passed very near the old VOR location. I said nothing about the reason a new VOR site was needed. My point was just that the VOR had not been renamed. Ah, of course. I see what you meant. OK, the old VOR was decommissioned, and its replacement was named APE. It was an apt name, though. It's immaterial that other VORs have been moved without being renamed. |
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Jepps airport and VOR names ... how used?
"John R. Copeland" wrote in message m... Ah, of course. I see what you meant. OK, the old VOR was decommissioned, and its replacement was named APE. It was an apt name, though. It's immaterial that other VORs have been moved without being renamed. The discussion had been about VORs that had been renamed without being moved. |
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Jepps airport and VOR names ... how used?
In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:
Flight data processing computers could understand and process VOR to airport and airport to VOR routes with identical identifiers. They still do, the VORs that had their identifiers changed were typically those that were more than about five miles from the airport. BUF VOR is 3.8nm from BUF airport, so that fits. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ I find that anthropomorphism really doesn't help me deal with hardware all that much, because it lends a certain attitude of disdain to what would otherwise be a mere malfunction. -- Carl Jacobs |
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