Airport Identifiers

[Tom 4536]

It would be helpful if airport identifiers in posts also included the city & State.

[PeteMc]

Agreed. 

It's not that it is all that hard to Google the identifier...  But why do I (and multiple other readers) have to go look it up when the poster already knows that info. 

[Tom 4536]

Besides, we are all getting older (I hope) and as I remember, the memory is the first thing to go.

[kortopates]

Agreed, but this is up to each poster to include. Not something the forum could automatically do. 

[Mooneymite]

Using regular names for airports it total heresy!

How can we possibly maintain the mystique of flying and personal superiority without our special "code"?

Also, making everyone look up an identifier proves you know something they don't and that's a tremendous boost.

Who wouldn't rather say they'd actually been to BFE than Brownfield, Tx?

NO!  A resounding NO!   

 

[Hank]

4 hours ago, Mooneymite said:

Who wouldn't rather say they'd actually been to BFE than Brownfield, Tx?

Oh no! I thought I lived in BFE here in Sweet Home!!

[carusoam]

I believe BFE is where Charles’ home drome is…. somewhere in the great NW, next to Egypt….  

I would tag his screen name just to make sure, but that requires additional memory…

Speaking of memory…. (Mine left years ago)

Expect people that only write the airport identifier….  
 

They are complementing your memory skills… 

There is a limit to how much memory any one GA pilot is going to have…

But, expect that everyone should have the major 50 airports memorized…

I don’t think anyone is going to know Princeton….  39N…

+1 on expecting very few people to know 1k airport identifiers…

In the end….

Some people don’t have enough time to write it all out….

Others don’t have enough time to look them all up…

By now… everyone knows the memory skill level of the audience…

Great observation Tom…

It all depends on how important the airport is to the conversation…

Or if it is a chain of 10 waypoints…

Its kind of a topic that arises annually…

Best regards,

-a-

[PeteMc]

Kind of like any acronym or abbreviation.   What I'd like to see for the first mention is "Brownfield, Tx (KBFE)" then after that just refer to KBFE or BFE.

 

[Mooneymite]

When you consider that identifiers are location specific, that's probably better than something like "Springfield" (all 50 states have a Springfield), but I agree, identifying the identifier on first time use in a thread would be helpful...unless reference is made to ATL which is clearly the center of the aviation universe and is a more acceptable descriptor than Hotlanta.  

[Hank]

10 minutes ago, Mooneymite said:

 . . . unless reference is made to ATL which is clearly the center of the aviation universe and is a more acceptable descriptor than Hotlanta.  

What, there's a "t" in "Hot-lanna"??? I don't say one there . . . . .

[Mooneymite]

23 minutes ago, Hank said:

What, there's a "t" in "Hot-lanna"??? I don't say one there . . . . .

Yeah...too much Yankee influence in my neighborhood.  I 'stan' corrected.