shouldn't the faa have some kind of an ident review board? wow, and just look at this file name...:-lolhttp://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID...afcd&DLID=45163

I thought the same thing when I saw that in the new files list. :-lolMisha

Well I'm sure the airport was probably around BEFORE "sucks" got its negative connotation...And definately around BEFORE The Internet Generation started abreviating it "sux" :)

So how do you explain KRAP ?

What else would you call Rapid City Airport??? I don't understand your point....Like KSUX...KRAP would have been there before slang terminology like "rap". Your not serious are you?

I like the ICAO ID for Adams field in Little Rock AR. :-hah

:-lol

Perhaps there should be some sort of review but there are a lot of idents to review but there are fewer dollars in the agencies' budgets now for such stuff and unless there is some outcry, there will be no review... And, you have to remember that the "K" prefix is not that old in its usage. Originally, the idents were just the 3 character string like RAP for Rapid City and BOI for Boise and LAX for Los Angeles and so on. The SUX is actually a form of the word, SIOUX for the name of the town and the Native Americans that once held sway over that area.

There was once a privately owned P-51 in Canada registered as C-FUK. However the Canadian authorities cancelled that one...the owner registered as C-FUZ later.Eric

Look up Greater Rochester, NAS Pensacola, Corpus Christi and Dahl Creek to name a few. Some folks with power of the pen I guess thought this stuff was cute.Little history lesson I can share about naming of roads here in the Southern USA. Used to be that the old dirt roads in the south really didnt have names unless it was named for a local farm, creek or other discernable feature. Those nondescript roads often got named by the chain gangs used by the local county jail to maintain roads. (anybody ever seen "Cool hand Luke"? (my favorite all time movie)). The chain gangs named these roads such things as "Two Finger road" (in Spartanburg SC)..."possum trot road" (dead opossum in road...) One wonders if such little treats in history applied to early aviation as well in some of these risque names. Sophmoric to be sure, but Im sure some pilots have had fun asking for vectors to KRAP..especially with female ATC. (and dont even get started on some names of other navigation points like VORs and jetway intersections!)Eric

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>KRAP would have been there before slang terminology like "rap".http://www.hifisim.com/images/as2betateam.jpg

no worry, terry. the question was purely rhetorical. i think the aviation gods up there are doing a great job with whatever funds they have. still, life winks at us every now and then...;)

Or travel out to the Nevada desert and visit U75. Not too bad huh?? How bout the name of the airport Jackass Aeropark.

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Be sure to take a look at the fix names for the GPS rwy 16 approach at Pease Int'l, Portsmouth, NH (KPSM). Start with the northwest IAF, and don't forget to include the missed approach holding fix.