Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
I've not seen this.
Airports have 'K' in the continental US at least, isn't it 'P' in Alaska for you guys that fly a lot up there?
I've not been up there in years.
I remember it being 'R' in Japan.
Airport identifiers aren't always related to the name of some town close-by.
Today I shot approaches into
K2H2, KMO3, KM17 for example.
Your examples of EYW - in my world now - would still be EYM for the Key West VORTAC and KEYW for Key West Intl.
They mean something when filing/getting ATC clearences for instance.
Getting cleared to ABQ (the navaid) and ABQ (the airport) are two different things
Well bags don't get dropped off at localizers
(usually)
Why do US airfields that have numbers in them not have the "K" published as the ICAO code? Looking at the AFD, only 3 digits are published. Also the gps nav databases(garmin, bendix/king, universal) dont require the K to be input. Does the K really matter when you are flying inside the lower 48?...........Just wondering