Callsign knowledge
Hi all.
Just a question from apilot who knows no better.
In ATCO training,is there a requirement that you have a wide knowledge of airline callsigns?
I know the flight's info comes up on the screen as a line reading BAW54 for example,and this would be spoken as "Speedbird54",but this just follows on from something i heard yesterday,where,in africa,a Transavia 738 was repeatedly addressed as"Tanzania xxx",then,on handoff to a new sector,was referred to as TRAxxx (obviously this is what appeared on screen).As they are seldom ever seen over africa,i guess the controllers didnt know their proper callsign,and there being static from CBs around,couldnt hear it clearly.
So just wondering if callsign knowledge is a part of training or not?
Cheers.