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◆ DOWNEY is now
DOWNE. Downey, by the
way, is also a Southern
California town named by
John G. Downey, governor
of California from
1860 to 1862. Governor
Downey subdivided the
Santa Gertrudis Rancho
and modestly named the
town after himself.
◆ PAJARO is now PAJAR, and
is named after the Pájaro
river. The Pájaro river was
named by Gaspar de
Portolá’s soldiers in 1769
when they found an
enormous bird which
Native Americans had
stuffed with straw. The “j”
in Pajaro is pronounced as
an “h,” with the first “a”
accented. Pájaro is the
Spanish word for “bird.”
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Problems
with
Waypoint
Identifiers
by Allen Amsbaugh
6 Issue Number 7
The United States airspace fixes also
include many names of Native American,
Spanish, and French origin. Very
near the ASRS office is the compass locator
for the ILS Runway 30L approach
to the San José International
Airport—JORGE, the Spanish name
equivalent to the English “George.” I
have heard it pronounced “George,”
and more properly, “Hor-Hay,” as it
would be pronounced in Spanish.
Many others come to mind, including
DOWNE on the ILS Runway 25L at
Los Angeles. Is it pronounced “Down,”
or “Downey” as is the city beneath it?
You will hear this both ways too.
When expert help is proffered, it is a
good idea to accept it—as the following
example shows:
✍ “Controller gave route change ‘Direct
PERRI intersection, J8 OTT, OTT 3 arrival
KBWI.’ He spelled out the intersection.
The Captain began programming
the FMS while we both reached for
enroute charts. The Captain loaded ‘Direct
PERRY,’ and the course indicated
about 140° which was reasonable from
the assigned 090° heading. The FMS
would not accept J8, and we began to
analyze why. TCAS II indicated traffic
which was descending through our altitude
and a potential conflict. The Captain
initiated a left turn to avoid the traffic.
Center issued a ‘Left turn
immediately!’ and then assigned 100°
[heading]. The conflict could have been
averted by my verifying PERRI versus
PERRY as the FMS entry. The Controller
spelled out P-E-R-R-I, and I wrote it down
correctly, but did not verify the Captain’s
input…” (# 264927)
This error resulted in a traffic conflict
because of the wrong heading.
The Controller wanted the reporter to
go to PERRI, a fix east of Charleston,
WV, while the Captain entered PERRY,
a fix southeast of Puerto Rico in the
Caribbean! The FMS would not take J8
from PERRY because PERRY is not on
J8, but PERRI is. Both man (the Controller)
and machine (the FMS) tried to
help this crew—to no avail.
FL330 until NOGAR (a fix 493 miles
down track). It’s interesting to note that it
took about three minutes before he could
pronounce the two fixes differently, and
then we realized there was a similar
sounding fix on the same route. Japanese
pronounce ‘L’ and ‘R’ [similarly], making
the words [sound] the same when pronounced
by Tokyo Radio. Tokyo immediately
amended our clearance to FL290.
An immediate review of related fix names
for similar sounding names, as pronounced
by local speaker’s language, is
essential. Not every nation or language
can or does speak English the same way
native English speakers do. Japanese phonetic
differences should be taken into account,
especially in Japanese airspace. At
a minimum, NOGAL should be changed.
(# 242971)
ASRS issued a For Your Information
Notice to the FAA with the recommendation
that NOGAL intersection be
renamed to minimize confusion. The
latest charts show that NOGAL has
been renamed NYTIM. But, how does
one pronounce NYTIM? Is it as “nighttime,”
or possibly “nit tim,” or even
“nee tim”? Even native English speakers
will have to guess about this one.
The Perils of
English Pronunciation
English is a wonderful tongue, and
is the official language of the air. Every
time that I flew abroad, I thanked my
lucky stars that the Wright brothers
were American! But the English language
has several deficiencies—the
biggest one being that there are no
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