IFR Refresher January 2004 Quiz

[Paul Tomblin]

Ok, this isn't the first time this has happened, but this month's quiz
asks you for the airport ident of the airport you use if you can't get the
local altimeter settings. Ok, the plate says to use "Whichita
Mid-Continent", that part I got. But then the quiz answer says to look on
the en route chart to see the ident. Except I can't even find Wichita
Mid-Continent on the en route chart segment they printed, and even if I
could, I don't see how you get the ident off the en route. That's
something that's always annoyed me about en route charts, is that they
don't print the identifier. And yet this is at least the second time
where the quiz has expected you to get the ident off the en-route. So are
the quiz composers seeing something that I'm not? Or are they expecting
it's there because they're used to Jepp en-routes?

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I don't know anything about what they printed but I am looking at the current
NACO low-altitude (L6) en route chart and see "Wichita (ICT) Mid-Continent
1338 L 103"

So, that tells me that Wichita Mid-Continent is ICT or KICT.

Paul Tomblin wrote:

> Ok, this isn't the first time this has happened, but this month's quiz
> asks you for the airport ident of the airport you use if you can't get the
> local altimeter settings. Ok, the plate says to use "Whichita
> Mid-Continent", that part I got. But then the quiz answer says to look on
> the en route chart to see the ident. Except I can't even find Wichita
> Mid-Continent on the en route chart segment they printed, and even if I
> could, I don't see how you get the ident off the en route. That's
> something that's always annoyed me about en route charts, is that they
> don't print the identifier. And yet this is at least the second time
> where the quiz has expected you to get the ident off the en-route. So are
> the quiz composers seeing something that I'm not? Or are they expecting
> it's there because they're used to Jepp en-routes?
>
> --
> Paul Tomblin > http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
> Fortunately, he was promoted far enough up the management ladder that he
> no longer has any real responsibility and is kept far away from sharp or
> dangerous objects - such as cc, gcc, vi and emacs. -- Curt Fennell

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, said:
>I don't know anything about what they printed but I am looking at the current
>NACO low-altitude (L6) en route chart and see "Wichita (ICT) Mid-Continent
>1338 L 103"
>
>So, that tells me that Wichita Mid-Continent is ICT or KICT.

I can't find Wichita Mid-Continent on the segment they printed, but maybe
I'm just blind. But also, and this isn't the only time I've noticed this,
I don't see identifiers on ANY of the airports on the en-routes they
print. Sure, I see them on my own en-routes. But I check on the Howie
Keefe Air Chart Atlas, and I don't see airport identifiers there either.

Did they only recently start printing identifiers on en-routes?

So I whip out my Howie Keefe Air Chart Atlas, and find the segment
they've reprinted in the quiz on page 22, and see there are two problems -
I'm not blind, Wichita Mid-Continent is just off the bottom edge of the
segment they printed, and there aren't any identifiers on the charts that
they've reprinted.


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Paul Tomblin wrote:

> In a previous article, said:
> >I don't know anything about what they printed but I am looking at the current
> >NACO low-altitude (L6) en route chart and see "Wichita (ICT) Mid-Continent
> >1338 L 103"
> >
> >So, that tells me that Wichita Mid-Continent is ICT or KICT.
>
> I can't find Wichita Mid-Continent on the segment they printed, but maybe
> I'm just blind. But also, and this isn't the only time I've noticed this,
> I don't see identifiers on ANY of the airports on the en-routes they
> print. Sure, I see them on my own en-routes. But I check on the Howie
> Keefe Air Chart Atlas, and I don't see airport identifiers there either.
>
> Did they only recently start printing identifiers on en-routes?

I have a bitmap of an old NACO L6 (from October, 2002) and it does NOT have the
identifier ICT for Mid-Contintent International. So, it seems that NACO started
including the three-letter identifier sometime in the last 15 months, or so.