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VOR Quizzes


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This Navaid is near to the end of the single runway at this warm destination airport in the U.S., and has the same identifier, but a different name.
The name of the airport does not contain the name of the nearby city served, and the name of the VOR is the name of the county where it is located.
This airport was opened in the 1980s, and airline service was moved there from the previous smaller airport, which still exists.  
Only 22 years after it started operations, a new airline terminal was opened on the other side of the field, due to increased demand.

Feb21

Emal your answer to:
VOR@dispatcher.org

Correct answers:

Jim Hanson - Cape Air
Mark Nashed - National Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Ed McCoy - NATCA/FAA
Ed Pataky
Connor Monson - Alaska Airlines
Joseph Chamberlain - UPS Airlines
David Sigel - UPS Airlines


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The answer is Lee County (RSW), Florida.

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This Navaid is near, and named after, a large U.S. city. 
Its identifier is also that of the nearby general aviation airport, which no longer has airline service,
having been moved to a new airport more than 50 years ago. 
A high level of bird activity in the area is a problem for aircraft. 

Photo courtesy David Stanley
(inspired by a photo in Classic Trains Magazine!)

Jan 2021

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Correct Answers:
 
Ed McCoy - NATCA/FAA
Dale Gentry- Southwest Airlines
Mark Nashed - National Airlines













The answer is Sacramento (SAC), California
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This navaid was downgraded from a VORTAC to a DME, but retained its name and identifier. 

It's near a regional airport by the same name, with the same identifier.  There is currently no airline service there.

The city is famous for an automobile assembly plant.

It's named after a park in New York City.

This photo was taken by a Dispatcher, who lives very close!  
November 2020

Submit your answers to VOR@dispatcher.org

This months winners:

Jim Hanson - Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Mark Nashed - National Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Joe Chamberlain - UPS Airlines
Timothy Smith - Southwest Airlines
Ed Pataky
David Sigel - UPS Airlines
Adam Schweber - United Airlines


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the answer is Bowling Green (BWG), Kentucky

Photo by Marvin Hood

Continuing on with our decommissioned VOR category, this navaid was located near a former airline hub in the United States. 
It was replaced with another VOR in the area, which carries its old frequency. 
It's named after a suburban town, which refers to its location above a nearby natural feature. 
It's on the site of a former airport, and after decommissioning, was used as a snack bar for an athletic complex! 
Bet those hot dogs tasted especially good! 
There's a currently-operating busy general aviation airport just across the highway.

December 2020

Email your answer to:
VOR@dispatcher.org

This months winners:

Ed McCoy - FAA
Jim Hanson - Cape Air

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answer:  Maryland Heights, Missouri (MTS)
photo by Jim Hann


This month’s navaid is actually a decommissioned VOR.  

Like some others in the United States that have met the same fate, it is still in use for its DME function,
with the same name and frequency that it had in its VOR days.

It’s located at an airport which had airline service into the 1960s.  

It also is the site of a collision of an airliner and a General Aviation aircraft, where a
Dispatcher in the jumpseat of the airliner saw the other aircraft and alerted his crew to it,
possibly averting an even worse accident.  

It’s not far from the highest point in the state.  

Some of the first jazz music recordings were made in this city.
This former VOR is named after the airport and city, but it also shares its name with another,
much bigger city’s VOR, which is also located at airport, and named after that city.  

And there is only one letter difference in the identifier!

October 20

Submit your answers to:
VOR@dispatcher.org

This months winners:

Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Mark Nashed - National Airlines
Jim Hanson - Cape Air
Ed Pataky
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
David Sigel - UPS Airlines
Joe Chamberlain - UPS Airlines

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Richmond, Indiana (RID) DME.

Here's the link for the accident mentioned.  The Lake Central Airlines Relief Dispatcher was the late Thomas Cotter.   

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19521215-0