Definition
Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport (ICAO identifier KTVR) is a public-use airport located in Tallulah, Louisiana, serving the Vicksburg, Mississippi and Tallulah, Louisiana area. In the Instrument Procedures Handbook it appears as the example airport for a localizer approach chart used to illustrate localizer approach procedures.
Plain English
KTVR is the four-letter code used to identify Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport on charts, in flight plans, and in air traffic communications. The handbook uses this airport as a real-world example to show what a localizer approach looks like.
Context Anchor
Seen on instrument procedure charts, approach examples, flight planning entries, and airport information to identify Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport.
Derivation
Airport identifiers in the United States that begin with 'K' follow the ICAO four-letter convention, where 'K' is the prefix assigned to the contiguous U.S. The remaining letters 'TVR' are a unique code for this specific airport. Knowing the 'K' prefix helps pilots recognize the difference between the ICAO identifier (KTVR) used in flight plans and the FAA three-letter identifier (TVR) often seen on charts.
Why Pilots Care
Pilots must use the correct identifier when filing flight plans, briefing approaches, and tuning navigation equipment. Mixing up an airport identifier can route a flight to the wrong field or cause errors loading an approach into the avionics.
Intuition Check
Do not read KTVR as a radio frequency, waypoint, or procedure name. In this context, it is the airport identifier for Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport.
Example Sentence 1
The instructor pointed to Figure 4-58 and said, 'This is the localizer approach into KTVR — let's walk through it together.'
Example Sentence 2
Pilots select KTVR as the destination airport when practicing localizer procedures in the simulator.