Cool callsign

[catocontrol]

What is the coolest callsign out there?

My favorites:
-Nitro (TNT)
-Mist (Norwegian mil)
-Speedbird (BA)
-midnight (sundt air)
-Keiko (Nor. mil)
-scoop (ben-air)
-Scandinavian (I had to add this one)

Weird or hard to say:
-Volga dnepr
-Grupotampico
-Aguascalientes (i would die if that one showed up at my airport)

[DirtyPierre]

The coolest would have to be Polar Tiger.

[catocontrol]

What is a polar tiger:) The same as a landshark or a snowhippo:)

[5milesbaby]

Check out this thread (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184258) currently running in Airlines,Airports and Routes.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Sorry, know this isn't quite what you mean, but for me the best callsign ever was "London Tower", often changed to "Tower of London" by a great Aer Lingus pilot.

[chiglet]

HD, don't forget the on uup north....Blackpool Tower :ok:
watp,iktch

[TopBunk]

I like:

- 'Dutchbird' the connotations are good;)
- 'Coast Rider'? sounds like Ghost Rider

[Bern Oulli]

If my aging memory serves correctly there is (or was) a freight hauling outfit based in Hawii (?) with the call-sign Uglyvan, the three letter code I forget. Presumably describes their aircraft to a "T".

[055166k]

DOOM**...........B52
DEATH**...........B2

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Game, set and match to Chiglet!!

Years ago, when I workd with the Yanks (great guys) a flight of F-4s had the call "On-heat 11". When they called our radar man exclaimed: "Hmmm; seasonal callsign.."

[RheinControl]

My favorites:
- 'Snowbird' (haven't seen them for a while)
- 'Beauty' (TUI Belgium)
- 'Speedbird'
- 'Cedar Jet' (Middle East Airlines)

Best ground station:
'Love Tower' (Dallas Love Field - check this lovely homepage: http://www.dallas-lovefield.com )

Worst callsigns:
- 'Fraction' - reminds me of friction, new c/s of NetJets Europe (formerly known as Skyshare)
- 'Skyrunner' - German operator of a pretty slow bizjet, Skywalker would fit them better.

[colmac747]

RIPPER** B52
WOLF ** GR4
VADER** C130
PEACH** B1B


BLUE CARGO** Always think of a plane load of nudes on board:=

[Pierre Argh]

There was once talk of placing radar on the Isles of Scilly... with growing oil exploration possibilties in the SWAPPS (bit like Shetland Radar?).... suggested callsign was to be, of course...

Scilly Radar

[niknak]

It would therefore follow that the "Tower" would be Scilly, as would be "Ground", as for the management....

[apache43]

"Lusty 91" - 2-ship of AV8B's landing in CYEG a couple of weeks ago. Also from the past, "Shark" - A-10 squadron, and "HEAT 51" - F-111.

One I forgot about from CYYZ years ago. Controller\'s timing was off on the PTT switch and a B1900 driver was referred to as "you f%&*ing idiot" ! :p

[despot]

despot ........

[Lon More]

Pierre Argh
Many years ago CMB (Cambrai) replaced SYL (Silly) near the Belgian/French border. Up to that time we had Silly arrivals and departures fromm EBBR.

Lon More
Here before Pontius was a Pilot or Mortus a Rigger

[Richard Taylor]

A BE350 going by the callsign of SPECSAVERS 4K departed ABZ yesterday evening.

Hope he was at the right airport.

Damn!! Should've gone to EDI !

[Radar Pete]

VFR reporting position in the Cape, South Africa called DARLING. All sorts of fun with the female ATC's, "call me DARLING".:D

[ComJam]

Personal favourite....

RAF Harrier GR7's.........."Wellard" :)

We used to have "Ghost" but someone nicked it! B******s

[Spuds McKenzie]

And the winner is...

























... Krasnoyarski (KJC)

[West Coast]

Canadian Armed Forces biz jet, CL600 I think.

"Schooner" as in a schooner of beer.

[Jerricho]

You made that up.



;)

[Argus]

Some years the New South Wales Gendarmes operated a helo, VH-PWW, which soon became known as “Pigs With Wings”.

[Loofty]

Hi.

I´ve posted it already at a different thread, but here it comes again:

The german airline without catering (EAE): "Starving"
(or was it "starwing"??!!:E )

The opposite to that would be "Rubens"
(by the way, does anyone know, who that is?)


RGDS,
Loofty.

P.S.: a nice one is also "Cactus" (America West)

[Wycombe]

"Reubens" is of course VLM of Belgium.

"Specsavers" will be heard nearly every day if in the vicinity of SOU or GCI

Another one that sounds quite good in the US is "Waterski" (which I think is Trans-States, a regional carrier)

US Military used to use "Quid" for their AAR tankers based in the UK.

[Loofty]

Thanks...........................................

[Rhodie]

I think this one is still used - Medical supply run nightly (Time critical stuff) out of Windhoek to JIA, C404, lands about midnight - "Ghost Rider"

[Radar Pete]

Hey Rhodie, reminds me of another midnight oil run between Winhoek and JIA, "Jolly Roger".

[Jerricho]

CRC - Con-air

Operates as fire spotters in Canada I believe.

[M609]

"Chaos"

.......and it was......

"Satan" was cool as well.

They had something in common too.

[chiglet]

Had one today at Manch. C/s was "Ballistic", Reg was LXPMI, should have been LXPOO :ok:
watp,iktch

[ETOPS]

Wycombe

It's actually "CLID" for the KC-135's.

Having said that I did hear a Female tanker pilot forced to use the callsign "CLID 69" over the North Sea a little while ago - made me smile......

[Number2]

ETOPS

Sorry, old boy, Wycombe was right. It was QUID. The SR-71 from Mildenhall also used the same callsign.

WANK 21 - a KC135 going Stateside made a dull day much brighter at LACC a couple of years ago! I don't think the Americans used it again after it was explained what it meant to a Brit!

[GOLF-INDIA BRAVO]

No Quid is the right callsign
some of the tankers call Exxon and some Shell

There is a very good book called callsign
which list a very large percentage of civil and military callsigns

G-I-B

[JustaFew]

Early nineties, we were warned by Lon Mil of two F-111s flogging around the Isle of Wight, c/s Burp 01 and Burp 02. A wind-up by Lon Mil p'raps? Didn't the USAF use Sherpa's for a while, c/s Pokey?

[Argus]

I recall a story about two F111's transiting to LFA 15, in the early 70s, c/sign Sperm 01 and 02. Said acft were receiving "service” from a female controller from a certain atcru in Northern England. She is reputed to have said, in a plum, cut crystal voice:

"You are now entering my dark area, ceasing radar service".

The leader responded in a laconic Texan draw:

"OK. Wriggle, baby wriggle"!

[JayeRipley]

Seen over Wales once, working the Mil


FIST and BALLS


You can imagine the coordination -

"Could you expedite your FIST through my BALLS, Controller 15"

[Itsrainingagain]

Most inappropriate callsign:

SWIFT - Formation of Tucanos are anything but!!!

[N380UA]

Gottem all here (http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/callsign.asp) :ok:

[Yellow Monster]

As a very junior female ATCO I once had to speak to a military helicopter calling itself Swallow 69. Couldn't talk for blushing!

[tallseabird]

I always liked Spanair, it sounds quite like the word spanair but when it appears mandatory that it is pronounced in a Manuel type accent and has a non-silent A on the front of it

[JayeRipley]

Spanair - I like their version of checking in on freq

"Climbing as cleared!"

None of this SID, passing level, cleared level or callsign nonsense!!

[Midland 331]

"Midland 331" was a certain sound about it.

Twenty years ago, it was the "goldmine" flight Teesside-Heathrow.


92 full economy fares, LCC costs. Maybe Midland were the first LCC?


Howsabout "Jetset"?

331

[2FLYEU]

In US airspace,

TACA .......Usually called TACO (like the Mexican fast food)
by atc...
Quite funny I think

[Unable Due Traffic]

SNAPPER69........

When the Canadian Forces still had T-114's as thier primary jet trainer, one instructor had this callsign when heading out for a weekend of R&R.

[javelin]

Giantkiller ! They work around Norfolk VA. Got transferred to them on the way back from Sanford one afternoon - quite entertaining !

[brain fade]

Don'y know exactly who uses it but I've heard 'LEGO 1' a couple of times. The tempation to ask if that was a lego plane or if they'd built it themselves had to be resisted.
Also 'Formula one' sounds quite good and certainly appropriate. Wonder if it's Bernie?

[Level headed]

I remember a pair of Luftwaffe F4s using the c/s "Hitman 1&2" a few years ago - that was pretty cool, especially as the leader had quite a deep, gruff voice! I think they were from Wittmundhafen.

I also remember another time when a colleague had a call from a pair of USAF A10s c/s Gunhog. For some reason he thought they were called Kellogg, like the british cereal. The A10 mate kept saying "Sir the callsign is Gunhog," to which my oppo replied ", Kellog roger." After the third attempt to explain it the Yank gave up, left the CTR and went en-route VFR. The rest of us were in stitches. To this day, my colleague still maintains that they were c/s Kellogg!

[Check 6]

Another call sign site (http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/CNT/3-3.HTM)

Check 6

:ok:

[Lon More]

Brain Fade

Callsign "Lego"

ICAO Callsign: Lego
IATA Code:
ICAO Code: LGE
Known As: Lego
Full Name: Lego System A/S
Country: Denmark
Web Site: www.lego.com


ICAO Callsign: Lego
IATA Code:
ICAO Code: LGO
Known As: Lego
Full Name: Lego Company
Country: Denmark
Web Site: www.lego.com

and


ICAO Callsign: Formula
IATA Code:
ICAO Code: FOR
Known As: Formula One Management
Full Name: Formula One Management Limited
Country: United Kingdom
Web Site:


Useful site for decodes (http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/callsign.asp)

[catocontrol]

I have heard a story from Northern Norway during a military exercise.

Drake01(British Lynx) came flying into a TMA. The controller replied to the Lynx:" Grape01, blah blah blah..."
Lynx:"It is DRAKE sir, not grape!!!":}

[Lon More]

Cato In a similar vein, "Emirates" is often called "Haemmeroids"

[brain fade]

Lon

errrrr.. thanks?:ok:

[Ripley]

Used to have a "PeeBee Air" airline in south asia sometimes back.

During busy/peak traffic period where transmission is quick and fast, you can hear "Pubic Hair" coming out... :E

[Lon More]

Allegedly there was an airline based in Goa called Goa Way:p

[Dominic Nortney]

The RAF op callsigns are the best without a doubt!

WIZARD and stuff it's great

[Scott Voigt]

We work a bunch of fun ones...

DOOM for some of the BUFFS...

OPEC for some KC-10's...

But my all time favorite was way back in the 90's. It was the FIRST all female crew in a C-141. Some odd ball in operations gave them the call sign.....


BROAD!!!!!!

Ya just have to love the irony there <G>...

regards

Scott

[Kato747]

My favorite, leading my 4-ship of RF4's home to EDAM, was WiBi.

"WiBi, on initial" pronounced "We Be" on initial. Zweibruecken Twr responded, "We Be expecting you".

Still chortling over two VORs in Eastern China though, "Fuquing" FQG (south of ZSPD)..... and "Wanquing" , up near Dalian

[catocontrol]

I had an American C-130 at my field last year. His callsign was "rouge"..When I first saw the strip with the callsign, I expected a flying version of the Moulin rouge:ok:

TWR:"Rouge13 taxi to parking in front of the tower, and send your cargo up here. EXPEDITE"

:p :p :p

[Duff Man]

Radisair > Radishair
Asiana > Adriana (gotta seen Oz Wheel of fortune for that one)
United > Untied
Jetstar > Jester
Argentina1234 > Argentina.
Rex > Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrex
Speedbird > Computer says noooo

[spekesoftly]

In a similar vein, story told to me back in the early 70s by an ex-RAF Twin-Pioneer pilot who had frequently flown in and out of Kudat in Malasia. Inevitably first contact with ATC on arrival went something like this:-

Pilot: "Kudat down there?"

ATC: "Kudat up there?"

[Lon More]

Not callsigns but waypoints.

When the N.Sea airspace was being re-organised some years ago, the intersection names down one route read:
BETTY
BITES
BIGGA
BOLOX
unfortunately someone had a sense of humour failure and they were changed before the introduction

[the hunted one]

My personal favourite is a Military Formation callsign used out of Valley.

OBI

So the lead aircraft is "Obi One".....

:D

Always made me chuckle...

Also remember a Mil Heli a few years ago called Farnborough with the callsign "Swallow 69"!

[Vercingetorix]

Have often heard Egypt Air respond when ATC uses the callsign "Eejit Air" or "Misery Air".

[WX Man]

Heard on the radio the other day:

"Elvis"

Probably a B200

(King Air) :D

[Wycombe]

"ELVIS" used to be used by the Tennessee ANG, based in Memphis

They were annual visitors until recently at RIAT, with a C141 (usually chock full of ageing Americans looking for a cheap, but not particularly comfortable ride to the UK).

[Fried_Chicken]

There is a Cessna Single based somewhere in the SE of England with the reg GBOLX, although the phonetic alphabet does take the fun away from the reg'

I also believe there is a German Kinga Air reg'd DIANA that calls "Dianna" rather then Delta India etc..

Fried Chicken

[M609]

Once worked a Dornier Seastar with the D-ICKS reg......


Much merryment on the freq...... :D

[Doodlebug]

Is it true BA has 'Birdseed' thrown at them from time to time?:p

[250 kts]

Yes it is. I used to like Hamburg Air-very easy to just convert to "Hamburger". What level do you want and would you like fries with it?:cool: :cool: :cool:

[Bear 555]

BAE Systems in-house operation, Corporate Air Travel (CAT) uses 'FELIX'......


Bear 555

[atco-matic]

Indeed there was an airline called Goa Way...

http://photos.airliners.net/middle/9/3/0/903039.jpg

[hazard_alert]

Operating in Victoria, Australia is Sharp Aviation. All their callsigns are SHARP followed by the number 8 plus two others. eg SHARP831.

Saying it often and quick enough sounds more like "SHARK BAIT 31"

[delta-golf]

Flew a DA40 out of Redhill and the short c/s is Golf- Foxtrot Oscar, can have some fun with responses to the controller with that one :D

[Flaps ten please]

We regularly see RAF Ops traffic using c/sign JEDI.

The joke when they return from their play area is running a bit thin though!

Reminds me of the story of the 2 Harrier pilots who forgot their callsign of the day:

Controller: "OK, adopt the callsigns STUPID 1 and STUPID 2"

:D

[noknead]

Grocery Boy......... used by RAAF Hornet on an exercise including bombing runs......... delivering the goods maybe??? :D

[Hobgoblin]

Can't believe no one mentioned ZS-DSC, a lovely old Piper Apache, of course the callsign degenerated into Dog Sh!t Charlie:p

Had to fix the spelling!

[Dan Winterland]

A lot of the USAF tankers had callsigns based on money. Peso, Dollar, Franc and Quid. I suppose because going to the tanker was a bit like going to the bank. The Mildenhall tankers still use Quid I think.

Our Squadron callsign was often Lion due to a lion being featured in the Squadron badge. On exercises in the far east, it was sometimes changed to 'Ryan' to make it easier for the local controllers to say!

'Flash', gulf based USAF C130s amused me - some irony there perhaps!

[KiloKilo]

As already said in the other thread;
Baby - BMI
In the beginning I can remember that there were some ATCO's that kept on calling them Midland because they didn't want to emberass the pilot. :D

Elite was a nice callsign belonging to Canada 2000 - CMM

Relax (ESK) is a nice one as well unless you are trying on the 121.5 to prompt them to call in ;)

And since we saw some waypoints passing by;

DVR - Dover; some pilots just can't resist the Over Dover Over.

A direct route; KOK (KOKSY) - DIK (DIEKIRCH); some insist on reading back KOK-DIK (I wonder why?)

[flyboy519]

I heard last week a new one ' Shadow 01 ' - Anyone know who runs this callsign

[tori chelli]

there used to be a number of comic book based callsigns, but a look through the book - sad or what! - only reveals
Batman- Executive, Switzerland
Robin - Robinton, Dom Rep
Penguin - Brit Antarctic Survey

I think Joker was nicked some time ago by the military of a certain country whose blushes I will spare.

:p tori

[kuriiri]

Hmm.. cool callsigns. I have to add one from Finland, FPC117

Finnpower

been called also spitfire 117 =)

[the_flying_cop]

ours is quite dull really,

police ***


i would like to propose one of the following:

plod ***
fuzzwing ***
rozzer ***
fedair (is that taken
filth ***

me thinks my fav is plod ***

any comments?

[apache43]

Worked an F-117 years ago arriving for an airshow. "Shaba 1". Shaba is Arabic for ghost.

[EXATCO]

flyboy519

My fading memory seems to recall Shadow ** was used by the gentlepersons from Mildenhall.

[Gingerbread Man]

I heard of a F3 four-ship using POTATO as their callsign, thus leading to the inevitable check in. "One potato, two potato..."

Anyone know if there's a G-SPOT around somewhere (i'm still talking about callsigns :p ) ?

Ginge :cool:

[Honey Monster]

There was a story going around many years ago about the LATCC Mil concroller who received the calls

" 'ello"
" 'ello 'ello"
" 'ello 'ello 'ello"
"London, Copper formation checking in"

Also, 25 - 30 years ago there was an Italian motor glider (I think) with the registration I-F**K

[Gugaflot]

G-SPOT was a P68, but it was destroyed.

I wonder if EI-EIO is still about? Ideal for an agrarian aviator called MacDonald perhaps...

[jayteeto]

Gingerbread.. I had to use potato as the callsign during EFT, trust me, it is not cool or funny. We were embarrassed to use the radio.

[ComJam]

Talking of "Jedi", I was working ScotMil earlier this year "Jedi " 1 to 4 checked in, the contoller responded with....

"Jedi, Identified are you, advisory radar service" (difficult to type to the way Yoda sounds) :D

Sadly we occassionally have to use "Monica"......DOH!

[aluminium persuader]

I seem to remember when Boeing brought the demonstrator of their new widebody into LHR for the first time it had the callsign "Boeing 777".

Heard that a female British controller uttered the immortal words; "Boeing 777, confirm your a/c type?"

:O

[Deeko01]

Our company has a cool callsign "Saltire" keeping the flag flying!!

[tori chelli]

worked with a (lady) controller who famously transmitted "Harvard formation, report your A/c type?"

this was the same person who turned to the tower controller & said "has the radio-fail A/c called you yet?" !!!

Talking of G-SPOT reminds me of GIIII - still flying - who was regularly referred to as "four eyes"
:p :D
Tori

[matsATC]

What about 'Slowline', or was it without the W... (Slovak Airlines)?

[Gisajob]

When I was a military ATCO, the French military used to send some air to air refueling tankers on operations over East Anglia. The callsigns were (honest) FUKCK and ****C. Our lady ATCOs always blushed.

Giasajob

[Lon More]

Gisajob There was also a ****D I think.

Was down the hole at Sopley one day, lots of brass visiting, one poor female controller was having problems trying to get a reply from him and was getting really upset. Top brass asked what was the matter and answer came back, "Sir, it's F:mad: d. "
It went very quiet.

[Pointer]

Several moons ago when "Ruebens" callsign was not that common; we got the question sometimes; "can you repeat your call sign please" and my reply would be (if they didn't get in the first, second and third attempt); "the fat woman painter... Reubens?" most reply's would be "..Ahh Reubens.!"

Not too long ago i was a RELAXed dude, and we had some fun with the way we would call in; the way to pronounce relax.

Pointer :E

[leefo13]

When Jersey European changed to FlyBE didn't they have a new callsign "Skywalker"........didn't catch on.
But they do have a Dash8 with the reg G-JEDI

[mach decimal 83]

to the flying cop,
yip the call sign fedair is taken up by a charter company in south africa

[flugholm]

Everyone at EDLV had a laugh when V-Bird (May god rest their souls!) announced their selection of "Veebee" as their callsign.
Lots of vibis available here: http://shop.beate-uhse.com ...:)

[eyeinthesky]

Further on the Lego Callsign:

I was in a flippant mood one day and the Lego Excel was outbound to Billund from the UK. Another crew queried the Lego callsign. Comments about the Captain having a fixed smile, moustache and a yellow face were bandied about. To his credit, he piped up:

"Do you like our plane? We built it ourself!"

A colleague of mine always wondered when the call would come;

"Lego 1 Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, the Captain's head has fallen off and rolled under the seat!"

Other US Military Callsigns spotted on Radar:

'Grim' in formation with 'Reaper'

[PH-UKU]

I would suggets the rather cooler ....

ROTOCOP :cool:

[floydie]

"Dutch Mil, Knot 14"
Knot 14, this is Dutch Mil, confirm your c/s is Knot 14?"
Affirm.
Roger, if it's not 14, what is it then?

[Trislander]

A/C inbound to Brest, France:

"Request brest information..." :p

[shuttlebus]

Trislander

Surely, BMI Baby would be a good example..

Aircraft: blah blah blah

Atc: Roger, Baby 123, cleared direct Brest

Regards,

Shuttlebus

[atcomarkingtime]

Startrek formation still gets me!!

[OVC002]

Does anyone have the lowdown on the origin of waypoint sobstory, half way between Nuuk and Kulusuk in Greenland?

There must be a reason.

[Squawk7777]

Thanks for mentioning Waterski, Wycombe :)

7 7 7 7

[Skipness One Echo]

Back in 1987 at Prestwick we had a one 747 outfit called Highland Express and their callsign was "Tartan." Anyway, after a fortnight of ops, for some reason it was revoked and they had to use the aircraft reg, "G-HIHO" which became "Golf-Heigh-Ho" half the time.

Happy days...:D

[Bob Sponge]

Always take a breather before reading back "BRT1T"..........:8

[JayeRipley]

or even BRT1TS that flies into Birmingham

[javelin]

The Police callsign should be Muppet - after all they had

'Pigs in Space' !

The scariest one at present is 'Reach'

You know they are either going to ask for a relay because their HF is down, don't know how to get an oceanic clearance or block 123.45 with irrelevant banter :\

[West Coast]

Could be worse with Ascott screwing up the skies here in SOCAL as they did when I was in the mil.

[Max Angle]

Bernie Ecclestone's BBJ goes under the callsign of Formula 1, very cool.

[spanishflea]

I believe Bernies "BBJ" is actually a 146!

[jumpseater]

The Lego bird
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b395/jumpseater/shineys/CRW_5434.jpg

[Atcham Tower]

OVC002 -- Sob Story was (still is?) a military air-ground station in Greenland 6511N 4350W. It was an FIS relay in 1972 and I seem to remember it was later upgraded to a radar station. The name intrigued me as well, probably just a Cold War code name.

[captain cumulonimbus]

Coolest civil callsign:

"Batman"-belongs to G5 Executive of Zurich.

Good bunch of guys and yes,you can climb direct level 450 on departure if you wish! (wish I could do THAT!):cool: