How did you choose your Pprune name?

[stiknruda]

Some are very obvious "Bloke in an Archer", "Whirlybird", etc. and some seem to defy any logic at all!

I undestand why Aerbabe and BEagle use these appelations.

So what is your story?

Stik

[Victor Mike Charlie]

Mine was clear as a bell

[FlyFreeWbe]

It's my life ambition to live up to my PPRuNe name: I'm a wannabe who wants to fly free. I'll figure it out someday...trust. (Call me stupid for not knowing bt why AerBabe and BEagle? I have seen some pictures tho..)

Free

[Circuit Basher]

Stik - sorry, it's been done before (twice at least)!!! :)

PPRuNe Names Origin Thread 1 (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80339)

PPRuNe Names Origin Thread 2 (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79091&perpage=15&pagenumber=1)

Still, let's see what happens.... ;)

[Ludwig]

before I was an inept aviator, I was an inept concert pianist:cool:

[Evo]

My first nom-de-PPRuNe was ex-job-specific, made a couple of posts in Mil Aircrew and is now long dead. I remembered PPRuNe when I started to think about learning to fly and had to register to post - and being totally ignorant when it came to aeroplanes I named myself after my car :rolleyes:

The '7' disappeared when I re-registered after becoming uncertain of password :)

[FlyFreeWbe]

Wait wait! I found AerBabe's one so I guess I'll find BEagle's. Thanks to the links:}

[Genghis the Engineer]

Acquired early in my career (pre-pprune), as my colleagues will tell you, it suits my working style.

G

[Wide-Body]

Because I fly one and I am one:D

Wide

[nonradio]

er.. because when at play, my flying machine has no wireless...

[flyin' shark]

First ever post, but was intrigued by the topic.

My pprune name is based on what my flying friends think of my day job...

[BRL]

Mine comes from when I started to learn to fly.

Someone bought me a jokey L plate, a big one saying to put it on the side of the aeroplane when I have a lesson.

I placed it on the wall next to my pc and when I came to register on pprune I was stuck. I sat staring at it for ages then suddenly thought hmmmmmmm, thats a big red L so I logged on as that... :)

Best name I have seen so far is 'Far Canal'....... :D

[Zlin526]

Big Red L,

Surely the best has got to be 'Vere de Fakawe'!

My own is pretty obvious- fave aeroplane.

[DB6]

Because DB6 Mk2 was too much hassle :cool:

[TheKentishFledgling]

Because Cusco called me the Fledgling, and Keef said "wot the kentish one"?

So it stuck!

Simple!

tKF

PS stik, explain yours. I know why, but I'm sure not everyone will.

[Kolibear]

Because I fly a Koliber. Actually, I fly the Koliber that was featured last month in a well-known monthly GA magazine.

[foghorn]

Was once likened to Loony Tunes character Foghorn Leghorn

[Wycombe]

Mine was very unimaginative

[vintage ATCO]

Because I'm old and an ATCO . . . .
. . . . and also a FISO at Shuttleworth. :p


VA

[Tiger_ Moth]

Because I both like and fly Tiger Moths.

The reason I have this stupid underscore in my name is because it wouldn't accept just plain Tiger Moth, but I've never seen anyone else of that username so I don't know what was going on there.

[Flying Boat]

Because I teach Diving for fun, so like boats & of course I love flying (more than diving now).

I also have a figure akin to a Shorts Sunderland.

Make sense?

FB:O

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Everywhere else I use my real name, but nobody on PPRuNe uses their real name ... so I thought that if I have to play silly games ... anyway, I like wombats.

(But I haven't got a picture of one on any of my Oz wildlife (http://www.brettward.co.uk/family/ozlife.htm) pages (http://www.brettward.co.uk/family/oz/ozlife2.htm) ; the problem with wombats is that when you point a camera at them they run up to you and try to eat it, and I've never managed to press the shutter before they get too close.)

[Secret Squire]

Cos people in real life call me secret squirrel, but some :mad: had already nabbed it! :rolleyes:

Secret

[Maxflyer]

I have just passed my skills test and wished that I had done it years ago. My son (11 months old) is going to fly and become RED ONE - His name is Max. MAXFLYER

[ShyTorque]

In a previous life I often used to watch a type of bird called the "Black Eared Kite" circling past my high-rise apartment window. They live on rubbish and carrion and so such birds are also called the "****e Hawk".

After I changed location and job type, I was required to fly in circles searching for bad folks that often fitted the rubbish description.

I became "ShyTorque" instead though, as it was slightly less rude than the original spelling!

[paulo]

Incompetence. My name is Paul and a mate of mine nicknamed me paolo (or whatever it is), i.e. "pow-lo",

'cept I obviously didn't/don't know how to spell it. Hence, err, yeah...

[Wot No Engines]

cos I've never flown anything with wings that has an engine

[Ripline]

Wings? What they?
:rolleyes:

For a balloon pilot the Ripline is the second most important flying control. "Crownline" sounded too posh and "Dump" is open to mis-interpretation........:E

[witchdoctor]

Don't ask - I'm as baffled as you!

[Coke611]

mine was from MSN Zone when I used to play flight sim online. The Coke bit is from my surname (Louis Coke is the full name), and the 611 bit is summat that MSN decided to add!

[stiknruda]

Actually, DB6, seeing you arrive on Saturday at Breighton in your rather splendid Aston caused me to query other's Pprune names.

Why you were still wearing your pajama bottoms still baffles me!

Stik

[tacpot]

The name of my favourite cartoon character was already taken, so I spelt it backwards. It seemed to make sense at the time.

[RomeoTangoFoxtrotMike]

Ripline had already nicked, well, ripline... :mad: :)

For a balloon pilot the Ripline is the second most important flying control. "Crownline" sounded too posh and "Dump" is open to mis-interpretation........

The most important control, of course, being the blastvalve, but i didn't like the sound of that, so...

A friend/colleague had recently bought me an RTFM tee-shirt. Cannot imagine why she thought it would be helpful for me to wear it, rather than say it :ooh:

Somebody else suggested that it might be just a tad too "in your face", so I lenghtend it :)

(well, it's better than the Adminspotting (http://www.adminspotting.org/) one :mad: :E [ Edited to add: there are some naughty :mad: words on the adminspotting site, in case you are of a nervous disposition :rolleyes: ] )

[NinjaBill]

becasuse im not an ninja, and my name isnt bill.

[FloatLikeAButterfly]

I'm learning to glide as well doing my PPL so the floating bit seemed apposite. Also, much as I find the principles of flight and aeroplane techie stuff interesting, what I would really like to do is dispense with the aeroplane altogether and just take off unaided into the wide blue yonder.

I'll shut up now before I find myself taking off unaided into the local looney bin!

Floaty

[Saab Dastard]

1) Have a Saab (well the wife has now ;) - mine's become an Audi)

2) Have an airband receiver and listen to Heathrow and the aeroplanes talking to each other while watching them on final approach.

3) I like Spoonerisms

Clear? :cool:

SD

[paulo]

Stik... bloke in an Archer isn't in an Archer anymore though.

I think he's BlokeInAC172GroupBasedAtNorthWeald or something like that. :}

[In Altissimus]

Paulo,

I think we've done that one to death:rolleyes: Some nice modbod even made my little announcement sticky for a couple of days - but it's okay, I've had a bath now and the stickiness has gone...

Yours,

Ex-BlokeInAnArcher

[Brooklands]

Actually I didn't choose it Whirly did :D

It was at the Sywell fly-in when we were all introducing ourselves. I'd arrived with Wycombe, and was introduced as a "PPruNer with no name". Whirly took one look at the sweatshirt I was wearing and christened me Brooklands.

I decided that I liked it, as its the birthplace of both British motor racing and aviation so I registered with it (and was quite surprised to find no one else had beaten me to it).

I've actually been Ppruning for a long time though - I was going to register a few years ago as the 9999th member (nickname All_the _nines). I stayed late a work one night waiting for the magic number to come up, but gave up at about midnight about four short of the target. I'm pretty certain that I can remember reading PPrune when there were LESS THAN 5000 registered users, and long before there was a Private Flying forum :(

[j0_ey]

My name is Joey. Creative aren't I :ok:

[Tall_guy_in_a_152]

I am tall (6'4).
I am male.
I fly a Cessna 152 (mostly).
I was probably subliminally influenced by the ppruner formerly known as BlokeInAnArcher.

TG

[BlueRobin]

..coz it's what I learnt to fly in, guv. A Blue Robin. But now I own the antithesis of a Blue Robin. A Red Jodel.

Perfect for popping into stik's strip ;)

[TangoZulu]

Simple really

The aeroplane I went solo in was G-BXTZ

TZ:cool:

[YYZ to POS]

Hmmm...Well, I was born in Trinidad & Tobago, but I currently live in Toronto, Canada.

YYZ-Toronto, Canada
POS-Port of Spain, Trinidad

Simple enough

[DB6]

Stik, do I detect a hint of envy at my cutting-edge sartorial elegance :D :D :D .
Nice pic in Pilot by the way :ok: .

[skydriller]

Because I dont just drill holes in the ground......:E

[BeauMan]

Because I was involved in a Beaufighter restoration, and had turned into a self confessed devotee of Bristol's finest.

[strafer]

I realised I was getting the hang of this flying lark when my instructor became so bored he took the controls so that he could pretend to strafe the traffic on the I-95. (Complete with dagga! dagga! dagga! noises).

[Blind lemon]

Because I am a Bluesman
:cool:

[Ace Rimmer]

Erm cos the day I registered (blimey that was a long time ago) the talk at lunchtime had been of Red Dwarf so it could have been Dave Lister, Arnold Rimmer, Kryten or Cat really but I think a couple of them had already gone...

[stiknruda]

DB6 - jealous of neither your sartorial or tonsorial inelegance!

:D


That pic - I am quite convinced that is a landing, if you recall the wind was strong and out of the north.... so the wrong wing would have been down had I caught a gust on take-off but that wing would/should/could have been down on an arrival!

Stik

[knobbygb]

Been known as Knobby for ages. Unfortunately not a reference to any physical attribute. Anyone who knows the 'Macc Lads' and thier character 'Uncle Knobby' will know where it comes from (Uncle Knobby (http://www.macclads.co.uk/hectic_house/lyrics/lyrics_alpha/uncle.html) ) - I'm not like that at all - honest! GB is just my initals - added by some poxy website once when just Knobby wasn't available.

[Lance Murdoch]

Lance Murdoch is an occasional character from 'The Simpsons'. He is the alcoholic stuntman who is always in hospital with broken bones or cirrosis of the liver. Seemed rather apt............

[ratsarrse]

Years ago, I decided that I wanted to try and play Command & Conquer online. Whatever username I thought of was taken, started getting frustrated and started typing in swear words. A mis-typed ratsarse was miraculously accepted and the name has stuck ever since in the murky world of the web...

Doesn't really suit me though, but hey, I couldn't really give a rat's arse...

[LowNSlow]

Easy peasy, when I first started Ppruning I had a 65hp Cub and I get nosebleeds if I fly higher than I'm prepared to fall down
;)

[Whirlybird]

Mine's obvious, as someone said, but I wasn't always Whirly.....

Way back in the dim and distant past, when PPRune's number of members was only in 4 figures and I was a newish PPL(A), I got my first PC. I got introduced to the Flyer email list, and someone on it mentioned PPRuNe. PPRuNe had this chat room, and having heard about these strange places, I tried it...as Amelia Earhart II (not a lot of people know that). Well, chat was new, and no-one knew what to say in it...it was kind of silence, then: "Do you fly?" Silence, then: "Yes". Then another long silence while this awesome information in an aviation chat room was digested. You get the point. I left PPRuNe chat, and forgot about it for a while.

When I came back, I was hooked on little whirly things, so I not only went into the chat room, I registered on the forums, as R22. I was R22 for quite a while. But time passed, and I tried a few other names...I think Fling Wing may still be around; not sure if Whirling Palmtree is.

Then I started going to bashes and things, and I wanted a NICE name, one I could live with for ever. So I tried Whirlybird...but it was taken!!! I was distraught; I was virtually living in the Rotorheads forum, I just KNEW there wasn't a Whirlybird, but it was gone. So I had an idea. If I put an askerisk after it, it would look like a rotor (if you have a good imagination). So I became Whirlybird*. Well, people asked about the askerisk, and at a bash one day, PPRuNe Dispatcher asked if I wanted to be just Whirlybird. He'd checked, and the original Whirlybird had only one post, but was long gone. So, to cut this exceedingly longwinded story a little shorter, he arranged it, and even kept Whirlybird*'s posts, and gave me back R22's and Fling Wing's posts...but don't get too jealous, I lost 400 posts in a server crash later on, and couldn't get them back.

So, you see, it's time to confess...

I'm not REALLY The Original Whirly. :{ :{ :{

[Lost_luggage34]

Well sorry for being boring, but after 350 or so sectors as SLF with expensive CISCO kit aboard have lost my lugagge more times than I care to recall.

Simple as that.

Try explaining that to a highly excited Italian boss back in Brussels !!

Why haven't you installed ..... in Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid, Oslo, Frankfurt, London, Barcelona, Milan, Zurich etc etc ..
errrr - because my equipment is in ........ (choose a 3 letter code)/ I don't know.

But with all respect to the guys that up and offload - most of the time a great job. I have applied to work on the ramp but been told to walk.

LL34

[Hilico]

Mine's a contraction of my company name. The company that for three years has been trying to sell aviation software. So it's obvious a) what the company is and b) who I am. Not. But I have had (and continue to have) tremendous fun trying.

In case Paterbrat ever looks at this, it's a three-syllable name and the first syllable rhymes with 'high' and the second with 'lie'. He shouldn't be addressing me as 'Hills'. That would get me confused in the public mind with Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape'.

OK PB, carry on!

[Sir George Cayley]

The father of aeronautics has been my lifelong hero. I had always felt his name was overlooked by history so choose it to pay homage and keep him in the public domain

Now that we approach the 150th anniversary of his aircrafts first flight hopefully his profile has been raised to its proper position.

He gave us a saying which I believe is the private pilots creed

The air is a navigable ocean that laps at everyones door

Sir George Cayley

[maflsc]

When I first registered I could not think of anything. Then I had what I thought was a good name which was obvious to me but no one else was to use part of the name of my flying school. It is the first two letters of each word:ok:

[Lucifer]

I was laying waste to an unfortunate village, and infecting dangerous minds with all sorts of un-Christian thoughts when I came across a rumour network that I determined to perfectly suit my purposes of increasing my power through spreading false rumour.

With this in mind I intend to take over the planet - what other communties do you know of that worship false idols so greatly. Mines a Yak-666.

[paulo]

Apologies to BlokeNoLongerInAn... sorry, it's the gag that keep on giving. You musta seen that... :}