Bakgrunnen for IATA flyplasskoder

[SQ321]

For de som ikke visste. Litt interessant med Canada og bakgrunnen for at alle deres flyplasser starter med Y relatert til geografisk inndeling av radiostasjoner i Nord Amerika i sin tid.

We've all sat and contemplated airports and their IATA codes for long enough, and some of their origins have remained a mystery. Why is Chicago O’Hare Airport ‘ORD’ and Orlando Airport ‘MCO’? At Routesonline we have done some digging and found out some of the answers to those burning questions.

http://www.routesonline.com/news/29/...n=routesonline

[ohegge]

Fin den. Men, har vi ikke allerede en tråd for slike flyplasskoder og deres opprinnelse?

Må vel også nevnes, Namsos sin flyplasskode der, da? Har (Rock City), Nomsos, fått flyplasskoden etter OSY (Osbourne), tilfeldig, eller intensjonelt?

[robertaas]

YVR, YOW, YYC, YYZ, Hvorfor så mange Y-er i Canada?

[sirpjalle]

Leste om dette for lenge siden... Finner ikke akkurat det bladet. Men HR er ca den samme forklaringen som i det nevnte bladet jeg leste...

Some special interest groups successfully lobbied the government to obtain their own special letters. The Navy saved all the new 'N' codes. Naval aviators learn to fly at NPA in Pensacola, Florida and then dream of going to "Top Gun" in Miramar, California (NKX). The Federal Communications Committee set aside the 'W' and 'K' codes for radio stations east and west of the Mississippi respectively. 'Q' was designated for international telecommunications. 'Z' was reserved for special uses. The Canadians made off with all the remaining 'Y codes which helps explain YUL for Montreal, YYC for Calgary, etc. (The start of the the song YYZ by the band Rush is the Morse code for the letters Y Y Z. Rush is from Toronto.) One of the special uses for 'Z' is identifying locations in cyberspace. What am I talking about? Well, an example is ZCX the computer address of the FAA's air traffic control headquarters central flow control facility. ZCX is not an airport but a command center just outside Washington D.C. that controls the airline traffic into major terminals.

http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html

[LN-MOW]

http://enroute.aircanada.com/en/arti...h-the-letter-y

[robertaas]

Takk for forklaring. Høres fortsatt veldig rart ut for meg.