To Seat62K -
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I am one of these old pilots (recently retired) confused by today's jargon.
Funny is, with my airlines, aircrews always used 3 letter codes for airports.
These were the only ones we knew. Our flight plans showed 4 letter codes
So we did not have to look in our airport listings to know which one.
I did memorize some 50 "3 letter" and 20 "4 letter" airport codes.
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Got me seriously confused when some nerds called AMS to be SPL.
And I was often based at JFK, or NYC. Runways too short at LGA for 747s.
I knew that LON meant LHR until we operated to LGW as well.
Or PAR for CDG, BUE for EZE, RIO for GIG, ROM for FCO... Who cares...?
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Fact is "4 letter" airport codes are favored by PPL or Ultralight professionals.
EGCP...? Let's see... E/Europe, G/Great Britain, CP/Cow Patch int'l airport.
Sounds so good and so technical, is it, to use 4 letters on Pprune...?
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Then there is aeronautical and aircraft systems abbreviations and jargon.
Is A/C air conditioning, or aircraft...? I also remember that AC is 400 Hz.
What is flight crew...? I thought it meant cockpit crewmembers.
If they say "your flight crew will serve drinks", should I expect the pilots to do it...?
For me, cabin staff (cabin crewmembers) are not flight crew.
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In the 1970s, we changed "abort" (takeoff) for "reject" as a T/O call.
Some Catholic aircrews were, I understand, against abortion.
Before the FMS, old 747s had Delco "PMS" Performance Management System.
A flight attendant once asked me if we talked about premenstrual syndrome.
Talking about FMS, why in hell do they use ABCDE keyboards...?
My laptop is QWERTY. Would have been so easy to design FMS with same.
And make it AZERTY keyboard for Air France.
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Sorry, my language is a degenerated English dialect called American slang.
A minority language spoken by 320+ million people... Plus many Canadians.
No better than Eastender's Cockney drawl, if you compare the two...
Do you get CNN with subtitles for translation on TV in UK...?
Yet multilingual, I am unable to read/understand SMS textese.
Once sent dinner invitation to a lovely flight attendant, she answered FK-U.
Could you translate for me...? She never showed-up... Thanks.
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So at my old age, in my rocking chair, Pprune is quite an education...
Happy contrails