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U R NumberOne
3rd Apr 2002, 18:31
Just wondering how many other ATCOs in the UK have spent the past few days starting transmissions with that? I was particularly guilty towards the end of my duty today, fortunately some of the crew were at it before I was.
Very annoying, especially as the trigraph is only one letter different and you're so damn used to the callsigns!
BEXIL160
3rd Apr 2002, 19:09
Same thing happened when CityFlyer started using BAW callsigns last year:
"Flyer eight si..... errr no, sorry, I mean SPEEDBIRD eight six..." :)
The Crews were often just as gulity as me, as often I would use SpeedBird and they would reply with Flyer!
All sorted now though..
Rgds
Bex (Back to my old self I see;) )
Warped Factor
3rd Apr 2002, 20:40
CRX.....
Cross.....oops, sorry, Swiss123 :)
WF.
Bright-Ling
3rd Apr 2002, 20:42
And of course the Crossair aircraft that now use SWISS.
Very helpul - with SWISSWINGS on frequency, the pilots getting it wrong bless them and me looking at the radar and seeing CRX and saying Crossair!!
AAAAAAAAAAghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Crapaud
4th Apr 2002, 12:24
Why can't BEE revert to JEA telephony as the company still uses 'Jersey'; or at least a telephony that has some link to BEE? As above- still very confusing when both BEE and BRT are on freq. Maybe Raw Data can shed some light?: :mad:
Lets's do away with all these gimmicky callsigns and revert to basics: "Charlie Romeo X-ray wun too tree, do you read? over!" :)
Arkady
4th Apr 2002, 15:21
One A/C on Freq
"Midland 5583 climb to FL370"
"Climb to FL370, BABY 5583?"
"Sorry, yes, Baby 5583 climb to FL370"
"Climbing to FL370, Midland 5583"
When Jersey changed to BEE their r/t callsign officially changed to "Skywalker" (at least that's what's in the ICAO book now); as far as I'm aware the crews refused to use it!
Bit of a shame really, as one of their Dash 8-400s that comes into our place has the registration G-JEDI !!
Pontius
4th Apr 2002, 17:05
Arkady,
Climbing "to" a flight level, surely not :eek:
Arkady
8th Apr 2002, 15:25
Pontius
The exact wording of the exchange has been modified to protect the innocent
Goldfish Watcher
8th Apr 2002, 19:11
and anyone else finding the BMI pilots 'Baby' quips a bit tedious now?
The other night - 'can we go direct, it's past our bed time?'