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Mallet liffey tipper

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  • 22-06-2019 11:26am
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    jkforde
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    Just wondering what the terms 'mallet' 'liffey' 'tipper' mean when ATC is talking with NA transit pilots

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    Brennus335
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    jkforde wrote: »
    Just wondering what the terms 'mallet' 'liffey' 'tipper' mean when ATC is talking with NA transit pilots

    Navigational waypoints. LIFFY is on the border of Shannon and London FIR's, just east if Dublin.
    MALOT is an Oceanic Entry Point between the Shannon and Shanwick FIR's, west of Ireland.

    https://skyvector.com

    Select World Hi, and zoom in to see all the waypoints.


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    faoiarvok
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭faoiarvok


    There’s a few others named after rivers around the boundary with London too:

    BOYNE off Louth, VATRY off Arklow/Wexford near the mouth of the Vartry, SLANY to the Southeast

    Also a point in Irish airspace that was introduced to allow airlines to file a slight detour around the corner of the more expensive Scottish airspace over Ulster, saving them money. They called it REVNU


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    Brennus335
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    Along the Melbourne / Brisbane boundary there's a line of waypoints..

    PUDYA
    SWEET
    LIPPS
    ALIDL
    CLOSA
    TOUDA
    PHONE

    And the Rnav transition into Brisbane goes.. LEAKY BOATS SINNK


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    jkforde
    Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭jkforde


    thanks a lot, who would've thought they'd be humour in ATC!

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    tricky D
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    At SFO, the airport uses terms like “TRUCKN2” and “GRTFL,” “DEDHD,” “TYDYE,” “HYPEE” and “COSMC” which refer to The Grateful Dead.


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    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    jkforde wrote: »
    thanks a lot, who would've thought they'd be humour in ATC!
    Check ATC funnies or JFK atc steve on Youtube for a happily wasted afternoon.


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    jkforde
    Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭jkforde


    tricky D wrote: »
    Check ATC funnies or JFK atc steve on Youtube for a happily wasted afternoon.

    oh man, funny stuff .. and what a job.. how do they think and talk so clearly flight after flight?! they must have to have short shifts, ye know what kind of rota these folks work?

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    marketty
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    There's some funny Disney related ones around Orlando too


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    _dof_
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    The excellent "No Such Thing As A Fish" podcast from the elves (researchers) on the QI television show did a bit about funny waypoint names. It's in Episode 268, recorded live in Vicar Street as it happens.


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