Hola Xolodenko - Privet
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Zdrasvuitye... Ochen priyatnya - sorry - no Cyrillic alphabet here.
I see you have been giving and receiving a lot of slang words or acronyms...
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Be aware that there are notorious differences between UK and Yank aviation slang.
I have lived 25 yrs in the USA, so my aviation English is from Yankistan.
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With my airline in the US, sure, there was "George" for the autopilot...
But sometimes we also joked - saying -
"A German approach" - (for "coupled approach") using the "OTTOpilot"...
"A Mexican approach" - (for hand flown, manual) since MANUEL is common name in Mexico...
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We used to remember QNH and QFE altimeter settings this way -
QNH was for Normal Humans (in the USA, standard procedure) -
QFE for "F*** Europeans" - landing with "0" on altimeter as you do in Russia -
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Did you know that when we went to MOCKBA... if our traffic was a Ilyushyn IL-62, we would nickname them "Veecee-ten-ski", for their resemblance to the British VC-10... We would call the IL-76 "One-Forty-Oneskis" due to their resemblance to the Lockheed C-141... and the TU-134 was a Deecee-nine-ski, again due to their look. The TU-154 was a "Seven-twenty-seven-ski"...
I guess we could do same for the 757 with the TU-204...
Well, we did same for your cars, the LADA, we called it the "Fiatski"...
And a ZIL or Tshayka was a Lincolnski...
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Before SLF was coined, we used to say "SOB" - not for souls-on-board - but son-of-a-bitch. I think SLF is nicer.
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Hope that Trans-Aero is doing good with their old 747-200s... I am the pilot who delivered them to Domodedovo from their storage in the California desert in 2005... Nice bunch of pilots. I don't like vodka, but instead, we had a few "Baltikas" together in Moscow... I love Russian beer, hate Budweiser...
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Tally-ho is indeed fighter pilot jargon for "target" (traffic) in sight...
No-joy, should you have missed (not seen) that target = miss the joy to shoot him down...
Douglas DC-8s were DC "late" as they were slower than the 707, or did not sell as good.
Also called the Santa Monica "cable cars" - due to profusion of cables to operate flight controls.
The little Learjet is called the "Fearjet" - as the old ones were sobering machines for some pilots...
The early Citations were known as "Slo-tations" - their cruise speed being slow...
We said that Citations need a weather radar in the tail - to prevent "bird strikes" from the rear...
The Mitsubishi MU-2 was the Rice-Rocket...
Here, we nickname all Embraer Jets, the "Samba Jets"...
Our presidential "air force one" plane in Argentina is a 757, "T-1" (Tango One) -
Quite appropriate that "T" is Tango = our national dance...
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Dosvidanya -
Happy contrails
