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VOR Quizzes


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This navaid is at an airport in the United States.  
The airport serves and is located between three cities, and its (and the navaid's) three-letter identifier contains the first letter of each city. 
Those three letters are actually the name of the airport!  
But the navaid is named after the largest one (barely) of those cites.  
A popular song of the 1960s mentions spending several days trying to get a ride out of that city.


October 2024

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VOR@Dispatcher.org

                    correct answers:

                                  Marvin B. Hood - United Airlines
                                                Ed McCoy - United Airlines
                                           Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
                                            Jesse Butcher - Delta Air Lines
                                                        Julie Harris
                                                        John Barry
                      Richard L. Fellie - Air Transport International
                                          Andrew Poure - Kalitta Air

This Navaid is in the United States, at a former airline hub.

It will remain in the Minimum Operational Network, but there's an
RNAV waypoint at the same location which brings to mind a criminal.


Photo by Manuel de Alba
Sept 2024



                    correct answers received from (page down for the answer):

                                   James Hanson
                            Ed McCoy - United Airlines
                     Alex Johnson - Southwest Airlines
                                  Cayce Sweeney - Atlas Air
               Martin Weaver - American Airlines (retired)                        
                                     John Barry
                           Bryce J. Harden - Kalitta Air
               Richard L. Fellie - Air Transport International
                            Kenneth Dechmerowski
                                  Michael Vane
                       Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
                        Jesse Butcher - Delta Airlines



































The answer is Nashville, Tennessee (BNA)

This navaid is in the U.S.A.
Six jet airways cross here, on the way to and from a large metropolitan area.
It’s named after a small town, about 25 miles away, the name of which is a person’s last name, or a first name.
That town is in an adjacent state.


Photo courtesy of Jonella Black.

July 24

Email your answer to:
VOR@Dispatcher.org

correct answers:

Ed McCoy - United Airlines
Ed Pataky - PSA Airlines
Alexander Johnson - Southwest Airlines
John Barry
Richard L. Fellie - Air Transport International
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski
Andrew Stockman
Bruce Leibowitz

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The answer is Parker (PKE), California



This navaid is located outside the United States, on an island. 
It’s close to an air base that has been used by the U.S. military for many years.
The navaid and the air base are both named after the nearby town.
Its identifier is not the same as the airport, which has commercial airline service, and is also a popular fuel stop.
Speaking of fuel, there’s a famous incident that occurred here with an Airbus that wasn’t planning to stop here…
There is a TACAN station on the field, oddly it is not co-located with the VOR.

Photo by Laura Lott





















August 2024


Email your answer to:
VOR@Dispatcher.org


correct answers:

James Hanson
Alexander Johnson
Richard L. Fellie - Air Transport International
Kenneth Dechmerowski
John Barry 
Ed McCoy - United Airlines
Bryce J. Harden - Kalitta Air

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the answer is Lajes (LM), Azores, Portugal

This Navaid is in the United States.  

There are two VORs with this name, and they are two states apart.

It's named after the nearby small city, and is 3.1 nautical miles north of that city's general aviation airport.
 
Oddly, this VOR's identifier 
coincides with the city's name, but the airport has a seemingly random three letter code, 
which was assigned around 2000.  

It is on an arrival for a large air carrier airport, 65 miles to the southeast. 
 Well, it was.  Now it's one of those darn waypoints on an RNAV arrival!

There was a midair collision nearby between a jet airliner (which had passed over the VOR) and a
general aviation aircraft decades ago, that resulted in the loss of all on board both aircraft.  

There is a National Guard helicopter base on the field, and a casino with a horse racing track nearby.


June 2024

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VOR@Dispatcher.org

correct answers from:

James Hanson
John Barry
Kenneth Dechmerowski
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines

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the answer is Shelbyville, Indiana (SHB)
photo by Phil Brooks