The World has a long way to go to achieve standardisation, I mean, when is the USA going to start driving on the left hand side of the road !!
Leave it to EASA and they'll come up with a €urocratic compromise - we'll all be required to drive in the centre of the raod....
On a multi-national exercise in Germany once, when we practised escorting a transport aeroplane along the 'Passageway' (the word 'Corridor' being banned...
) the 'tactical word' to call the head/beam/stern sector approach of the intruding fighter was decided by the leader. Of course, when Uncle Spam's F-15s had the lead, they came up with punchy words such as 'cougar', 'bear' and 'snake'. After a few days of this, it was the Brit F-4s' turn to lead - so our leader chose 'Nobber' and 'Pillock' (can't remember the third). Off we went - and to hear the French Mirages calling "Nobbeurre" or "Peeelock" had us in stitches......
Working with the French in Incirlik, the RAF-suggested formation callsigns of 'Agincourt' and 'Waterloo' were, for some reason, declined by the French......
