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VOR Quizzes


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This month's navaid is located in the United States.  
It's named after a nearby geological feature, which itself is named after a religious group.
Its identifier might make you hungry.

photo by Susan Pfingstler

Feb 20
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This month's winners:

Mark Monse- Southwest Airlines (retired)
Ed Pataky
Jason Spalding - National Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
David Birkley
Dale Gentry- Southwest Airlines
David Sigel - UPS Airlines
Jose Delarosa - Frontier Airlines
     Adam Schweber - United Airlines       


Answer - Mormon Mesa, Nevada (MMM)



This navaid is adjacent to a major international airport in the United States.
It has the same identifier as that airport.
That airport was used as as filming location for an Academy Award-winning film, which generated three sequels. 
Winter weather played a big part in the film.
Music royalty lived in the city until a few years ago.

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Photo by Captain Thomas Livesey

Jan 20


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VOR@dispatcher.org

Correct answers:
Mark Nashed - National Airlines
David Birkley
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Jason A. Spalding - National Airlines
Ed Pataky













The answer is Minneapolis (MSP).

This VOR is at an airport outside the United States.  The navaid has a two letter ID.
A very famous landing happened here.  The airport no longer has scheduled airline flights.
A fatal airline crash, the only one to ever happen to this type of aircraft, happened close to this airport.
The photographer is in an aircraft on final approach to another, much busier, airport.

NOV 2019
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Correct Answers:

Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Chris Morris - Northern Middle School
Steven Turner - Atlas Air

This navaid is located at an airport in the Caribbean.  It does not have the same identifier as that airport.

It, the airport, and the area it serves are named after the nearby cape.

The airport was the first of its kind in the world, in terms of its ownership.

That's a winglet on the right side of the photo.

photo by Jerry Bunch

DEC2019
Answer - PNA (Punta Cana)

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VOR@Dispatcher.org

This month's winners:

Dale Gentry- Southwest Airlines
Chris Morris - Northern Middle School
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines

This Navaid is located in the United States, at a former U.S. Air Force base. 
It’s named after the nearby unincorporated community, which had been a city until it burned to the ground in 1911. 
A river passing through the area, draining into a large lake, shares the same name as the VOR.
The airport, which has a different name and identifier, is used as maintenance facility for an airline.

May 2019
Photo by Hiroshi Ando

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Correct answers:  

Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Brian Brown
Adam Schweber - Frontier Airlines



















ASP (Au Sable)

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