On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:44:23 +0200, Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The 3 letter FAA airport codes have been prepended with a K but they never > used to be. > e.g. C83 now equals KC83 Canada has done that officially -- all Canadian airport codes are now four-letter ICAO codes starting with 'C', even the ones for tiny grass strips or floatplane bases. The last I checked, though, the US had not yet done the same (even though it owns the prefix 'K', so could easily do so with no conflicts); only the airports that had proper IATA codes now have ICAO codes, as far as I can tell. Robin's database should use ICAO codes where available, of course; sooner or later, the US will switch over all its airports officially, so KC83 will be a real identifier, but they're not quite there yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_airport_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_airport_code All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
