Airborne_Again wrote:
Aaaah. Nostalgia.
I only just remember them. I think they went in the mid to late eighties.
Timothy wrote:
I only just remember them. I think they went in the mid to late eighties.
I’m pretty sure colour names was still being used when I paused flying in 1996.
At that time there were still “purple airways” in the UK. I never figured the point in telling potential terrorists exactly where the “royal personages” would fly.
I remember reading about this in a Spanish book on Air Law and Air Navigation.
It basically said that the basic rules for an airway designator are:
- Prefix of 1 or 2 letters. These prefixes can indicate whether the airway is an upper airspace airway (it has a U as the first letter), or an RNAV airway…
- Number of up to 3 digits.
- Suffix of 1 letter.
This is all off the top of my head.
I don’t think they really mean much. It’s similar to roads naming and numbering… Some follow some form of pattern but many do not and there is no “robust” naming system that explains all the designators…
Peter wrote:
I admire your optimism, in hoping to find “information” in the ATPL theory
hahaha, so true.
