The term 'Commander' is also used to differentiate between the nominated commander of a heavy or double crewed aircraft where there is more than one captain on board.
If ATC miss your call sign when you make a transmission and ask for your callsign, ("aircraft calling at FL350 say again callsign" for example), then replying with, "It's the AB123" doesn't sound out of place, on the other hand announcing oneself as "THE AB123" is a bit unnecessary!
Anyone else think that the really sad wonkers/spankers here are the ones that seem to get so upset about it?
