Switching gears for a moment.
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LETTER FROM A RETIRED AIRLINE PILOT TO HIS PEERS:

Here is a home study simulator course for those who still hunger for the romance and adventure of airline flying. It will all come back to you if you practice the following at home:

1. Stay out of bed all night.

2. Sit in your most uncomfortable chair, in a closet, for nine or ten hours facing a four foot wide panoramic photo of a flight deck.

3. Have two or three noisy vacuum cleaners on high, out of sight but within hearing distance and operating throughout the night. If a vacuum cleaner fails, do the appropriate restart checklist.

4. Halfway through your nocturnal simulator course, arrange for a bright spotlight to shine directly into your face for two or three hours, simulating an eastbound flight into the sunrise.

5. Have bland overcooked food served on a tray midway through the night.

6. Have cold cups of coffee delivered from time to time. Ask your spouse to slam the door frequently.

7. At the time when you must heed nature's call, force yourself to stand outside the bathroom door for at least ten minutes, transferring your weight from leg to leg, easing the discomfort. Don't forget to wear your hat.

8. Leave the closet after the prescribed nine or ten hours, turn on your sprinklers and stand out in the cold and "rain" for twenty minutes, simulating the wait for the crew car.

9. Head for your bedroom, wet and with your suitcase and flight bag. Stand outside the door till your wife gets up and leaves, simulating the wait you'd have while the maid makes up the hotel room.

10. When your spouse inquires, "Just what in the hell have you been doing?" Just say, "Recalling the allure of all night flying to romantic places" and collapse into bed.

11. If you are a purist, do this two nights in a row.

If we're still talking about fix names, I like KPNS direct into KLIT

LOL. Where are these places???

KPNS = Pensacola, FL
KLIT = Little Rock, AK

Here's a few more good ones:

KDIK = Dickinson, ND
KSCK = Stockton, CA
KPHK = Pahokee, FL

Just get creative with spelling and punch it into www.airnav.com to see if it's out there...

Near Olando...there's a fix called DRESR or DRSSR (dresser)I can'tremember how u it was spelled, but it used to always have a crossing restriction with it...so of course ATC " Cross DRSSR at 10,000 " and you'd get some pilots saying "roger, we'll be looking"

still learning...
 

How do those fixes work? Are they en route navigational aids? I'm training for a PPL right now; havent gotten that far yet...

They're points defined by navigational aids (two VORS, distance + radial of one VOR, NDB, LOC, etc). The one's that you see on your Sectional are the same ones used on Low-Alt IFR maps.

My faves would be GOONS around the Georgia / Alabama borders, TEPEE and ZEXYY around Tampa, FL, and THNDR near Pahokee, FL

Necro-post for the win... But we were heading to KLIT the other day and making the obligatory jokes while putting it into the FMS... The flight attendant sticks her head in the cockpit and says "I'll be surprised if you guys can even FIND that one"

KRAP Rapid City SD

Get FAT with Fresno.

Ive alsoenjoyed O69 in Petaluma.