Originally Posted by
Phil_R
When aircrew are discussing which aircraft specifically they'll be flying today, how do they refer to them?
I appreciate sometimes there might be a discussion about serviceability and which aircraft are available with which bits working, depending on what we're training on this occasion, that sort of thing.
It depends on the fleet - for example when I was on F3s I might refer to the jet as ‘FJ’ because that’s how my Sqn (and fleet) managed their jets. On GR4 however the fleets were referred to by number - so ‘057’ or similar. The one thing we didn’t refer to them by was their actual serial, like ZGxxx. This clearly is only the case for fast jet fleets, I don’t know for rotary or multis/ISTAR.