PAPA and TANGO Sufixes

[OCEAN WUN ZERO]

ALL

An annoyance recently occurred at an airfield near you whereby the suffix “P” was taken to be a positioning flight. Not unreasonable you might think….
Can anyone enlighten when or if these suffixes were official and with the advent of numerous alpha numeric call signs there, has been an official edict to say that they may not be training, T, positioning ,P,engineering ,E etc.

cheers

:)

[Spitoon]

As far as I know it's entirely up to the operator to determine (within sensible bounds) the trip numbers used after the operating agency identifier. No edicts that I'm aware of either.

There was a NATS project called ACCESS a few years ago on a related subject - I think a report was published by the CAA (or maybe it was NATS themselves), maybe that has some helpful guidance.

Overall though, I think a callsign is just a callsign - beware of making any assumptions.

[BDiONU]

There was a NATS project called ACCESS a few years ago on a related subject - I think a report was published by the CAA (or maybe it was NATS themselves), maybe that has some helpful guidance.
Google is always your friend. Access (http://www.mccallumwhyman.com/downloads/access/index.htm).

BD

[Spitoon]

BDiONU,

I'm afraid Google is not always your best friend.

Here's (http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=33&pagetype=65&appid=11&mode=detail&id=1244) the real thing. I'm afraid I was just too lazy to go and find the link earlier. I assumed that if anyone was interest4ed enough in the doc they could track it down.....seems I was wrong!