I remember that the name change happened while I was in
Tulsa attending Spartan, mid 70s.




"Jim Carter" wrote in message
news:001a01c6ffa0$d7da0e40$4001a8c0@omnibook6100.. .
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jim Macklin
[mailto | Posted At: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:10 PM
| Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
| Conversation: IFR in the Eastern Mountains
| Subject: IFR in the Eastern Mountains
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| ... are also a lot of flat landers who die in Arkansas.
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| I don't remember exactly when, but in the '70s or early
'80s PGO just
| West of KMEZ was renamed from Page VOR to Rich Mountain
VOR. A voice
| message was added to the Morse identifier -- Caution,
rapidly rising
| terrain... The identifier remained the same however.
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| This was specifically in response to the growing aluminum
content on the
| Southern slope of that hill. The terrain to the South is
relatively flat
| and then all of a sudden the Kiamichi Mountains jump
almost straight up
| in a very short lateral distance. We never thought about
it because
| traveling from the North you already had to account for
the Ozarks and
| the Boston Mountains; Rich was just one more hill to
cross.
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| I was in Mena last Saturday and had a chance to fly over
that terrain
| for the first time in about 20 years. It still looks like
hills, and at
| this time of year - beautiful hills.
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