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I had a first today; flying VFR across New England on this clear winter
day, my route took me over Bradley, KBDL. I always tune VORs during my flights, so tuned Bradley's VOR. Identifying, though, was interesting. The morse identifier was FOUR characters, the last three of which were B D L. I had to listen a few times to believe my ears; there was a K before B D L. I've overflown Bradley many times, but this was the first time it had a K preceeding the rest of the identifier. If VORS are being phased out, why would a change like this be made? Or was something else going on? Inquiring minds would like to know. -Jack |
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Any chance you were perhaps identifying I-BDL, the identifier for localizer
for runway 6? Other than that, it makes no sense to me. According to the AFD, the identifier for the VORTAC should be simply BDL. Perhaps an engineer erroneously rentered the identifier with a 'K' after testing the navaid. "Jack Cunniff" wrote in message ... I had a first today; flying VFR across New England on this clear winter day, my route took me over Bradley, KBDL. I always tune VORs during my flights, so tuned Bradley's VOR. Identifying, though, was interesting. The morse identifier was FOUR characters, the last three of which were B D L. I had to listen a few times to believe my ears; there was a K before B D L. I've overflown Bradley many times, but this was the first time it had a K preceeding the rest of the identifier. If VORS are being phased out, why would a change like this be made? Or was something else going on? Inquiring minds would like to know. -Jack |
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Nope. It was a "K". I also got appropriate navigational info (DME/bearing)
from it, and the frequency was from the sectional, so no chance it was a mis-tuned localizer freq. You're probably right, it has to be an engineering issue. It definitely threw me. -Jack "Brad Z" writes: Any chance you were perhaps identifying I-BDL, the identifier for localizer for runway 6? Other than that, it makes no sense to me. According to the AFD, the identifier for the VORTAC should be simply BDL. Perhaps an engineer erroneously rentered the identifier with a 'K' after testing the navaid. "Jack Cunniff" wrote in message ... I had a first today; flying VFR across New England on this clear winter day, my route took me over Bradley, KBDL. I always tune VORs during my flights, so tuned Bradley's VOR. Identifying, though, was interesting. The morse identifier was FOUR characters, the last three of which were B D L. I had to listen a few times to believe my ears; there was a K before B D L. I've overflown Bradley many times, but this was the first time it had a K preceeding the rest of the identifier. If VORS are being phased out, why would a change like this be made? Or was something else going on? Inquiring minds would like to know. -Jack |
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I've had a similar experience. When the localizer at TTA (Sanford, NC) was new
the charts showed the ident as "I-TTA", but the ident heard was "TTA". I reported it somewhere, don't remember where, and I don't know whether it's been corrected. My point is only that there is precedent for this kind of error. Dave Remove SHIRT to reply directly. Jack Cunniff wrote: Nope. It was a "K". I also got appropriate navigational info (DME/bearing) from it, and the frequency was from the sectional, so no chance it was a mis-tuned localizer freq. You're probably right, it has to be an engineering issue. It definitely threw me. -Jack "Brad Z" writes: Any chance you were perhaps identifying I-BDL, the identifier for localizer for runway 6? Other than that, it makes no sense to me. According to the AFD, the identifier for the VORTAC should be simply BDL. Perhaps an engineer erroneously rentered the identifier with a 'K' after testing the navaid. "Jack Cunniff" wrote in message ... I had a first today; flying VFR across New England on this clear winter day, my route took me over Bradley, KBDL. I always tune VORs during my flights, so tuned Bradley's VOR. Identifying, though, was interesting. The morse identifier was FOUR characters, the last three of which were B D L. I had to listen a few times to believe my ears; there was a K before B D L. I've overflown Bradley many times, but this was the first time it had a K preceeding the rest of the identifier. If VORS are being phased out, why would a change like this be made? Or was something else going on? Inquiring minds would like to know. -Jack -- Dave Butler, software engineer 919-392-4367 |
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