Newbie question.

Quad18star · Post by **Quad18star** » Fri May 15, 2009 5:21 pm

I'm a newbie to the site and looking for an answer to a question I have. I don't have any flying experience or training , but hope to get some in the near future... hopefully something on floats to be able to do some bush flying.

Anyways, my question is ..... how do you read or understand airport abreviations? Like Toronto is YYZ or something along those lines. I've been reading through the forums and you guys all use these abreviations and was curious of how they come about, is there a certain system or way of reading them or...???

Thanks and sorry for the newbie question.

Just another canuck · Post by **Just another canuck** » Fri May 15, 2009 7:35 pm

Some make sense, some don't... Canadian ones start with a C. Toronto is actually CYYZ.

CYFB is Iqaluit, which used to be Frobischer Bay. YRL is Red Lake, YPL is Pickle Lake. Like I said, some make sense, or have a reason for their name and some don't.

deflux · Post by **deflux** » Fri May 15, 2009 7:37 pm

There is a directory called the Canada Flight Supplement, if we don't know what one is we just look it up

Quad18star · Post by **Quad18star** » Sat May 16, 2009 9:05 am

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll look into that Canadian Flight Supplement.

Without looking at it , would Sudbury be CYSB... or would it be one of them oddball ones>

CLguy · Post by **CLguy** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:19 am

Yes Sudbury is CYSB. If you don't know one of the airport identifiers posted here just google CY** Canadian Airport Identifier and it will appear. No need for the Flight Supplement!

Quad18star · Post by **Quad18star** » Sat May 16, 2009 1:25 pm

CLguy wrote:Yes Sudbury is CYSB. If you don't know one of the airport identifiers posted here just google CY** Canadian Airport Identifier and it will appear. No need for the Flight Supplement!

Thanks for the info.

I sent you a PM about a few things ... let me know if you can help out at all. Thanks again.

lowaltituderecord · Post by **lowaltituderecord** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:46 am

Most of the ones that made sense got taken by US airports a long time ago.

5400AirportRdSouth · Post by **5400AirportRdSouth** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:51 pm

Someone once told me that if the second letter ( cYvr ) was a Y, then the airport had an associated weather station.

Can anyone confirm or deny?

Most of the airports I am familiar with, fit the pattern.

wallypilot · Post by **wallypilot** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:58 pm

page down in this thread from a couple years back...Doc makes a good post on this topic:

viewtopic.php?t=5204&highlight=airport+codes

Dominic220 · Post by **Dominic220** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:52 pm

The C denotes Canadian, the Y is not required, a la Lachute, QC - CSE4 (...or is it CSE3... damn you sleep deprivation)

Louis · Post by **Louis** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:51 pm

Lachute - CSE4

Lourdes-de-Joliette - CSE3, which is a dropzone I incidentally work at.

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