CAPT ALOHA's TRIVIA HOUR
A4sForever said:
So when I say "Aloha, Brothers," you know what I mean ...
ALO-O-O-O-O-O-O-HA !!!
KBayDog said:
You mean "Book 'em, Danno!"...right?
A little trivia time (???) --- some of the original navigational waypoints/intersections in and out of Honolulu are named after someone's favorite detective shows. Canon, Booke, and Selic, come to mind right away.
Canon = the old TV detective series with William Conrad,
"CANNON".
Selic = of course, TOM
SELLECK, as in
Magnum, PI.
And "Booke"? It used to be
"Bookem" -- no joke. As in:
"Book 'em, Danno"!!
When the FAA went to computers in that great flight plan in the sky, only 5 characters were allowed for the identifiers to these waypoints. Therefore, when some overwhelmed bureaucrat changed all the identifiers to 5 characters, "Bookem" became "booke". Makes absolutely no sense when considering the original intent; why not make it phonetically "BOOKM", or something like that...?
In point of fact, I had the HNL "Head-Fed" in my cockpit once on the way back from Tokyo and I related this history to him. He was a fan of "Hawaii 5-0" and said he was going to make it a priority of get "Bookem-Danno" back into the phonetic Honolulu FAA waypoint lexicon. Then Sept 11 happened and other, more pressing priorities came to the forefront. With the way the FAA works, all these could be changed to Tom, Dick, and Harry by the time you read this ...
But maybe, some day ... in a far, far, better place ??? Say what?
Oh, yeah --- I forgot: one of the waypoints IS PRESENTLY (and always has been) NAMED "DANNO" !!!
ALOHA, Bruddah .... :icon_smil
ROGER BALL !!
