VOR Quizzes

This month's navaid is at an airport which used to be quite busy, but now is much quieter.
The identifier is different than that of the airport, and it is named after the original name of the airline based there.
The area has a Denver connection.
There is an island to the southwest.

Answer:

Midwest (MXQ)

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This month's winners

Timothy Smith - Southwest

Adam Gutterman

Dale Gentry - ExpressJet

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2014 July VOR Quiz

July 2014 VOR Trivia Quiz

Contest submitted by: Phil Brooks

Photo by Chris Walker

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2014 July Vor

This month’s VOR is in a U.S. National Park, a long narrow one.
It's located at a geographical feature that once was an airline's callsign.
A famous airliner crash happened about 17 miles northeast of this location, that was Weather related.

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This month's winners

Walter Wilson

Answer:

Linden (LDN)

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2014 June VOR Quiz

June 2014 VOR Trivia Quiz

Contest submitted by: Phil Brooks and Mark Monse

Photo by Mark Monse

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June 2014

This month’s VOR is in the United States.
This Navaid has an arrival procedure named after it, involving a small-sized yet very busy U.S. airport.
Its name is shared with a man of letters. Is this Paradise?
There is a lot of ravioli nearby.

Send your answers to: PBoyle@dispatcher.org

This month's winners

Dale Gentry - Expressjet

Robert Mathews - Republic Airlines

Answer

Milton (MIP)

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2014 August VOR Quiz

August 2014 VOR Trivia Quiz

Contest submitted by: Phil Brooks

Photo by Jeff Hansen

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This month's NAVAID is part of a Departure Procedure from a major US airline hub.
The VOR has a female name. A female with the same name had a palace, and convicted of tax evasion.
The nearby town that it's named after is the birthplace of a famous blues guitarist and singer who died in 1993.

Send your answers to: PBoyle@dispatcher.org

This month's winners

Mark Monse - Southwest

Walter Wilson

Warren Andrews

Dale Gentry - Expessjet

Robert Mathews - Republic Airlines

Dave DiBiase

Rich Nelson - Sun Country Airlines

Ed Pataky

Tad Carlson

Answer - Leona VORTAC (LOA)