Navigation fixes are intersections or points along
airways (highways in the sky) and airport arrival/departure procedures. Fixes
are given five letter names (like NOISE and WEEDY) to make them easy
for pilots and air traffic controllers to reference.
When airways or procedures are being designed or
modified, local FAA facility employees often recommend fix names. The FAA’s
Office of Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) checks the names to make
sure they are unique, pronounceable, and not obscene or controversial.
Here are some examples:
Sports fanatics:
Near Boston, you have CELTS and BOSOX. Only in Texas you find:
GOALL, PPUNT, DRPPD, FTBAL,TEXNN, COACH, QTRBK, TAKKL, RECVR, FMBLE and TCHDN.
By Soldier Field; KUBBS and BEARS. In DC GIBBZ, SKINS, and MONKK.
Foodies:
Near Kansas City, you get the regional SPICY, BARBQ, TERKY, SMOKE and RIBBS.
And in Vermont and New Hampshire, HAMMM BURGR FRYYS.
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One of the more unusual set of fixes is a tribute to
Warner Brothers Cartoon characters Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird on the
approach to runway 16 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire International Airport. The
fixes read: ITAWT ITAWA PUDYE TTATT
IDEED.
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