Another ID change for Smoketown? (37PA, Q08, S37)

Yes, it's a tough job changing those id's. The 100k a year guy spent
weeks on the S, and then there was the 3 and the 7, whew. Tough work,
but I guess that's why they get paid the big money.

Go to Alaska, the same airport has TWO id's (or at least they did, not
sure if they've cleared up that mess yet).

Apparently there is the FAA way and the ICAO way and sometimes they
are different. And do you put a K in front of the ones with a number?
Sometimes, I've seen programs where you do.

And another thing, you look on the WAC's and it says, Carlsbad (CA),
or maybe something else. Look in the Terminal charts, nope you won't
find them under Carlsbad, hmm, maybe San Diego? They have id's why
don't they use them? Noooo, they gotta use the NAME. I thought this
was the whole reason to have id's, so we don't have two names the
same.

Oh well, some things never change. Like, life is chaotic.

Jeff Saylor wrote in message ...
I noticed in the new New York Sectional (just came out a few days ago)
that the Smoketown, Pennsylvania (just east of Lancaster) has a new
identifier, S37.

Ok, identifiers change sometimes, but a few years ago Smoketown changed
from 37PA to Q08, presumably in the effort to make public use airports 3
digits.

Now it changed yet again...why? Was there a problem with Q08--perhaps
being confused with somebody else in the area? (Most one letter- two
number airport IDs in Pennsylvania/ NJ begin with N.)

What's even stranger is that 37PA was subsequently used by a heliport
(IIRC) and it is now the identifier for private use Roadcap Airport in
western PA, which was previously known as 31N. 31N has not been
reallocated as far as I can tell.

So what's with the musical identifiers? A secret evil plot by the GPS
database providers?