This is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. If I'm reading correctly the Florida waypoints referenced were renamed because a busybody NY Times reporter complained?
Zooming into my local area is a fun bit of puzzling over some of the changes.<p>I guess I see why XXWNG is changed to EXWNG (less ambiguous), but why is Colorado's BRNKO changed to VONNN? (edit: aha, maybe local hero Lindsey Vonn) HASHE is changed to JURKY, maybe because the former could be a drug reference to Colorado, and HIPPE is changed (though it was in a decidedly non-crunchy part of Colorado).<p>FLAIL became DEELO, and if I was forced to guess it's because saying "flail" over a radio would be something I'd tend to slowly overpronounce. CENTN was presumably changed because it's almost the name of the nearest airport (KAPA, Centennial Airport).
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Is there a time limit before these can be reused somewhere else? I assume it's not immediate, or it might cause confusion. Most of these names are only bad because of the area they're over.<p>I appreciate the creativity put into some of these though, I assume that makes most of the notable navpoints more memorable.
Looks like DROWN is still out there.<p><a href="https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/DROWN" rel="nofollow">https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/DROWN</a>
And yet, they kept SHART. Love it. <a href="https://skyvector.com/?ll=40.49952904132459,-98.21383667288202&chart=302&zoom=1" rel="nofollow">https://skyvector.com/?ll=40.49952904132459,-98.213836672882...</a>
> Therefore, there offensive and derogatory nature went unnoticed until the recent comments of Donald Trump’s speech.<p>I'm not quite sure what they mean by that. If the sequence was TRMMP DPORT MXCNS maybe.
SFO has some appropriately Silicon Valley-themed waypoints: the SSTIK5 departure procedure has "CISKO", "EBAYE" and "UTOOB". SFO also has the SNTNA2 departure which has "KYNNG", "KRLOS" and "SNTNA" (in that order).<p>LAS has the GAMES2 arrival which has "FUULL", "HOUZZ" and "BYNGO".<p>My personal favourites, however, are at Philadelphia (PHL), where there are there two arrivals named after cheesesteak restaurants: JIIMS4 and PAATS4.