Taupo And Wairakei Associated With Airline Route Points

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 69, 2 September 1965, Page 3

Taupo And Wairakei Associated With Airline Route Points

Air travellers coming into New Zealand will in future be "homed in" over airline route reporting points, code-named tf> give a colourful pointer to the country's tourist features, including Wairakei thermal power project and Taup»o's trout. Aircraft flying from Sydney to Christchurch, for instance, will report at such points as chairlift, glacier and snowfield. Travellers Auckland-hound from Sydney will pass over reporting points fernleaf, glowworm, steambore and troutpool, while those from Fiji will come in over silver fern, crater lake and cascade. This opportunity to give New Zealand a tourist "plug" on international air route maps came about at a recent meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation held in Vancouver. It recommended that reporting points on international routes be designated by code name instead of by route details, latitude and longitude at the time of reporting. The use of code names gives brief, positive identification of reporting points, and New Zealand and Australia have already adopted the system for the Tasman and Pacific routes. New international charts for these routes will give the new designations, and will be used by all overseas air-

lines operating on New Zealand and Australian routes. For reporting points on routes to and near Australia, the Australian Department of Civil Aviation chose a series all bearing the names of fish.