Aircraft Reconigtion ??
Good Morning,
I fly helis , and as most people will know there are slightly different ways of arriving and landing at most airfields than there are for aircraft, problems arise sometimes from information passed to me when my mind is set on the immiediate task of t/o or landing, such as "after the PA 28/38 you may commense", whilst I think I have a very good grasp of as much avaition info as I can hold, I do not understand what a PA28/38 is , is it a low/high winged single/twin,
on two occasion's I have been supprised by another f/w a/c taxi-ing into my view/field of take off, is there not a better way of giving information about aircraft other than their manufacturers code, after all very few controllers say to f/w pilots that a B206 is crossing their path followed by a EC135TI.
Please don't bite my head, of this is not any form of critisim but an attempt to see if this area could be cleaned up or streamlined, the concentration needed with heli's is immense, and I would hate to miss a taxi-ing, or landing aircraft because of a code number mix up, due to ignorance of that info.