Originally Posted by
212man
Seems pretentious to me. What you put in a flight plan isn’t necessarily what you say in RT. You wouldn’t say Bravo 737 - you’d say Boeing 737. So why not just say Eurocopter (or Airbus) 145 to ATC, and write EC45 in the flight plan? Similarly Sikorsky S76 rather than Sierra Kilo seven six!
Exactly. I still, perhaps naively, hope common sense can prevail and that the spoonfed will maintain the capacity to think independently.
No harm in asking if you don't know the answer, but I am noticing it increasingly seems the easy (or lazy) first option, rather than doing any legwork and finding it yourself. The answer is in the appropriate publications.