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What examples are there of waypoints strung together on airways or approaches which are funny or tell a story in order to help controllers and pilots reduce navigation mistakes? I'm not looking for individual waypoint names, but connected waypoints. For example:

WONZA JOLLY SWAGGY CAMBS BYLLA BONGS UNDER ACOOL EBARR TREES arriving from the West into Perth.

WEEEE WLLLL NEVVR FORGT SEP11 on the Freedom airway to Washington International.

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  • @mins You found some in French? – SMS von der Tann Oct 19 '16 at 10:53
  • @mins Nope - I'm guessing that names are never published in 航点, ウェイポイント, የመንገድ ነጥብን or similar non-latin languages ;) Your examples are great, thanks. You should post these as answers. If the community let's this live, it will be a great resource. – Simon Oct 19 '16 at 11:14
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    One small example in UK is a pair of waypoints on approaching Southampton from the south: NEDUL and THRED. NEDUL also happens to be over the Isle of Wight Needles. – IanF1 Oct 19 '16 at 16:23
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    "Please give us a list of jokes" is not a Stack Exchange question. I'm pretty sure we (collectively) have been through this before on meta. – David Richerby Oct 19 '16 at 22:48
  • For airport codes, Ottawa to Zahedan: YOWZAH – Neil McGuigan Oct 20 '16 at 00:36
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    @DavidRicherby I agree and don't expect it to live but, worth a try ;) I agree with the whole SE ethos but sometimes, just sometimes. I've had the most fun reading these I've ever had on this stack. – Simon Oct 20 '16 at 06:42
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    @mins Changing the title doesn't help. If you want to ask that question as a separate question, go for it. But the current title is not descriptive of the question, which remains as "Please give us a list of jokes, albeit ones that might have a useful purpose beyond being jokes." – David Richerby Oct 20 '16 at 07:06
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    @mins Ah, I see in the last edit someone threw in the "to prevent navigation mistakes" line. The original question and all of the answers are not about preventing navigation mistakes; they're about silly names. – Zach Mierzejewski Oct 20 '16 at 16:30
  • Someone just close the question already. It only needs one more vote. – Simon Oct 20 '16 at 16:35

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Australia

  • Brisbane / Melbourne FIRs boundary
    PUDYA SWEED LIPPS ALIDL CLOZA TOUDA PHONE
    (Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone, Jim Reeves)

  • Brisbane RWY19 STARs
    LEAKY BOATS SINNK and
    DRAIN PLUGG SINNK.
    BLAKA MOOVI by the South.

  • Gold Coast (YBCG) SID 14/32
    LUVLY MEETA MAIDS
    (Lovely meter maids)

USA

  • Frederick, Maryland (KFDK) RNAV (GPS) RWY 5
    PHILB DEFND GEEAY
    (Phil Boyer, AOPA president, defends GA)

  • Kansas City, Missouri (KMCI) ILS/LOC RWY 1R
    SPICY BARBQ TERKY SMOKE RIBBS HOTBI

  • Lebanon, New Hampshire (KLEB) ILS/LOC RWY 18
    HAMMM HAANK BURGR FRYYS

  • Nashville, Tennessee (KBNA) ILS/LOC RWY 2C
    LRETA JCKSN GRRTH
    (Loretta Lynn, Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks)

  • Orlando, Florida COSTR THREE ARRIVAL
    From LA BELLE Tacan: DOWNN MOANS BIGGR
    From BOXKR ANDRO SETME
    (I'm quite sure I missed some other)

  • Palm Beach, Florida (KPBI) Ivanka One Departure
    The various departure paths include
    UFIRD DONLD TRMMP IVNKA
    (The FAA scrapped this procedure and some of the associated waypoint names in 2015.) CRYER UTLEY FINNS PYRUT AHABB
    (Captain Ahab is a fictional character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Jimmy Buffett song: A Pirate Looks at Forty; Jimmy Buffett song: Fins; Michael Utley: musician; Jon Cryer(?): actor)

  • Portsmouth, New Hampshire (KPSM) RNAV (GPS) RWY 16
    ITAWT ITAWA PUDYE TTATT - IDEED
    (I thought I saw a pussy cat - I did!)

  • Salt Lake City, Utah (KSLC) RNAV (GPS) RWY 34L
    HOAMR MARRJ BAURT LIEZA
    (Simpsons characters)

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  • Also DRAIN GUTTA DEBAY (down the drain, into the gutter, and out to the bay), VERRY TRIKI, DENIS LILEE (Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee), at Brisbane. – hobbs Oct 19 '16 at 18:36
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    Not to be outdone by their barbeque rival, KMEM has the BRBBQ arrival containing WHOLL HOOGG and BRBBQ SAUCC. But being from KC I must say the truth is on another arrival: BARFF! – TomMcW Oct 19 '16 at 20:12
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    As a note, try to upload plates & such to the Stack Exchange imgur (as images) so the links don't go dead. In particular for US procedures any links to charts or plates on faa.gov *WILL* break when the relevant document expires (they're removed to prevent people from downloading and using obsolete plates). – voretaq7 Oct 19 '16 at 21:05
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  • "Lovely meter-maids", not "meet maids".
    • – Nij Oct 19 '16 at 22:41
  • I found DAVES STOOL off Massachusetts. – SMS von der Tann Oct 19 '16 at 23:26
  • @voretaq7 -- good point. Airnav has a redirector that can be used to get a link that always fetches the current plate, though -- can we piggyback on that? – UnrecognizedFallingObject Oct 20 '16 at 11:40
  • @UnrecognizedFallingObject That's better than the FAA's plate repository, but if a procedure is cancelled I think they stop serving it (for obvious reasons) – voretaq7 Oct 20 '16 at 14:42
  • @voretaq7 -- probably true :) – UnrecognizedFallingObject Oct 20 '16 at 22:10
  • And one of the IAFs for the Portsmouth RNAV (GPS) 16: SATAN. – Vikki Feb 22 '19 at 04:50