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VOR Quizzes


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This month's navaid is in the United States, along an Interstate Highway.
It’s named after a lonely place on the former Santa Fe railroad, and it shares its name with a nearby quarry.  
It's not far from where an event (which was given the same name) occurred that caused an Amtrak train to derail.

It's also a male name from mythology, and sounds similar to a metric system unit of area. 

April 2019
Photo by Susan Pfingstler

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Answer - Hector (HEC)

Correct answers:  

Jim Hanson - Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Dave Birkley
Jason Spalding - National Airlines
Dale Gentry- Southwest Airlines

This Navaid is located in the United States, at a former U.S. Air Force base. 
It’s named after the nearby unincorporated community, which had been a city until it burned to the ground in 1911. 
A river passing through the area, draining into a large lake, shares the same name as the VOR.
The airport, which has a different name and identifier, is used as maintenance facility for an airline.

May 2019
Photo by Hiroshi Ando

Answer: scroll down!


Correct answers:  

Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Brian Brown
Adam Schweber - Frontier Airlines



















ASP (Au Sable)

This month’s navaid is in the United States, inside Class B airspace. 

It’s named after the county where it is located.   That county is named after a river that flows through it, itself named after a French fur trapper.

It has the same identifier as a large general aviation airport located five miles away.  That airport has a distinctively shaped main ramp.

Sep 19

Answer:  see below (page down)


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Correct Answers:  

Connor Monson - Alaska Airlines
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Ed Pataky
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Ethan St. Martin - United Airlines
hiflyer63



















DuPage (DPA)

This month's navaid is located in the United States.  

Its name is the same as the nearby regional airport, but with a different identifier. 

They are both named after the river that flows through the area, which itself has the name of an unprincipled, deceitful individual.

That's a stratovolcano in the distance

July 2019
answer at bottom of page.
Photo by Steve Davis

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Correct Answers:

Dave Birkley
Adam Schweber - Frontier Airlines
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Ed Pataky
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Kelli Golden















Answer
OED - Rouge Valley

This navaid is located outside the capital city of a U.S. state, and shares its name.
A local institution of higher learning was renamed to honor the last name of a man who was an early benefactor of the university. 
It has as its mascot that man's unusual first name (for today).  
There was a landmark Supreme Court Case regarding the local school system.
The local airport is named after someone named PHIL!

June 2019

Photo by Phil Brooks

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Correct answers:  
TOP - Topeka

Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Jim Hanson - Cape Air
Dale Gentry- Southwest Airlines
Ed Pataky
Chuck Mann - United Airlines
Connor Monson - Alaska Airlines
Adam Schweber - Frontier Airlines
James Clavin-Marquet
Arthur Carson - Miami-Dade College