Talk:ICAO airport code

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The code list does not show what codes are used for:

* American Samoa
* Andorra
* Antarctica
* Bouvet Island
* Cocos Islands
* Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
* Faroe Islands
* French Southern Territories
* Heard Island, McDonald Islands
* Liechtenstein
* Martinique
* Norfolk Island
* Palestinian Authority areas
* Pitcairn Island (no airport, but surely a weather station)
* St. Helena
* St. Pierre and Miquelon
* San Marino
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (British Antarctic Terr?)
* Svalbard, Jan Mayen I
* Tokelau Is

The scheme does not indicate if a prefix code has been designated for extraterrestrial sites such as stations in Earth orbit or on the Moon, although such stations can be expected to be within the reach of civil aviation within the lifetime of this scheme.

Contents 1 ICAO code rules 2 Camp Canargus, Haiti 3 ICAO codes are not comprehensive 4 How the .... did they come up with these? 5 Shouldn't Major Countries Be Listed On Top?

[edit] ICAO code rules

Am I correct in assuming that the letters of airport and navaids (VORs, etc.) must be upper case? Are numbers allowed? Can anyone name the ICAO document containing the guidelines that cover the naming rules?

• To the anon, convention always places them in uppercase. I have seen no instance where they are different. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 23:26, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Camp Canargus, Haiti

Does anyone have any info on this place? It's the only C listing ICAO code outside Canada. All Google has is the weather for it. Thanks CambridgeBayWeather 08:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ICAO codes are not comprehensive

There are thousands of airports that don't have ICAO codes.

[edit] How the .... did they come up with these?

How on earth did Australia end up with Y, given the countries that have codes starting with A? This is indeed the most bizarre list of codes I've ever seen! (not being sceptical - but they don't make much sense to a n00B!)

Garrie 03:17, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shouldn't Major Countries Be Listed On Top?

It would be easier to find information if the major countries be listed in a seperate table. This way you won't have to scroll through all the ones hardly anyone would care to read.

How do you know that people don't want to read the others or choose which countries are major? Doing so would violate Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

• My apologies for putting U.S. and canada on top. I am new to editing wikipedia and was not aware of the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy. Since people from other countries view the English Wikipedia, I will undo my edit and I take back my comment on major countries. I promise to only give helpful ideas next time that don't voilate any policies.
• Thank you CambridgeBayWeather for reverting my mistake for me.