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08 Nov 2010, 8:27 pm

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08 Nov 2010, 10:00 pm

And if not, here's a hint: Pearson.

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08 Nov 2010, 10:52 pm

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08 Nov 2010, 11:47 pm

I'm not much for Morse code, but isn't that the radar beacon pattern for Ontario International?

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09 Nov 2010, 10:11 am

1001001 sos?

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09 Nov 2010, 12:57 pm

I once actually listened to "YYZ" while waiting at Pearson Airport in Toronto. Does that make me a geek?

On a somewhat related topic, from someone not originally native to YVR-- Canadian airport codes confuse me. Anybody happen to know why so many of them start with the letter Y? I mean, I can understand needing to make them unique and not confusing them with other airports, but why Y in particular?

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09 Nov 2010, 1:38 pm

Chevand wrote:

I once actually listened to "YYZ" while waiting at Pearson Airport in Toronto. Does that make me a geek?

On a somewhat related topic, from someone not originally native to YVR-- Canadian airport codes confuse me. Anybody happen to know why so many of them start with the letter Y? I mean, I can understand needing to make them unique and not confusing them with other airports, but why Y in particular?

Y not?

Yeah, that was lame... :roll:

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09 Nov 2010, 2:18 pm

Chevand wrote:

Canadian airport codes confuse me. Anybody happen to know why so many of them start with the letter Y?

From http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html:

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Some special interest groups successfully lobbied the government to obtain their own special letters...The Canadians made off with all the remaining 'Y codes which helps explain YUL for Montreal, YYC for Calgary, etc. (The start of the the song YYZ by the band Rush is the Morse code for the letters Y Y Z. Rush is from Toronto.)

(But we knew that!

) Still doesn't explain why they chose Y in particular, though...

(Edit: Fixed link.)

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28 Dec 2010, 2:12 pm

Tom Sawyer?

yeah just a random guess

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