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Old 28th Oct 2005, 17:44
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Everyone at EDLV had a laugh when V-Bird (May god rest their souls!) announced their selection of "Veebee" as their callsign.
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Old 28th Oct 2005, 17:58
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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'
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Old 28th Oct 2005, 20:46
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Police callsigns .....

I would suggets the rather cooler ....

ROTOCOP
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Old 28th Oct 2005, 21:00
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"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?
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Old 29th Oct 2005, 17:34
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A/C inbound to Brest, France:

"Request brest information..."
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Old 29th Oct 2005, 18:43
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Surely, BMI Baby would be a good example..

Aircraft: blah blah blah

Atc: Roger, Baby 123, cleared direct Brest

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Old 1st Nov 2005, 14:33
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Startrek formation still gets me!!
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Old 1st Nov 2005, 18:40
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Does anyone have the lowdown on the origin of waypoint sobstory, half way between Nuuk and Kulusuk in Greenland?

There must be a reason.
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Old 2nd Nov 2005, 01:07
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Thumbs up

Thanks for mentioning Waterski, Wycombe

7 7 7 7
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Old 2nd Nov 2005, 08:38
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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...
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Old 2nd Nov 2005, 20:07
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Always take a breather before reading back "BRT1T"..........
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Old 2nd Nov 2005, 21:34
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or even BRT1TS that flies into Birmingham
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Old 3rd Nov 2005, 19:26
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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
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Old 3rd Nov 2005, 20:01
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Could be worse with Ascott screwing up the skies here in SOCAL as they did when I was in the mil.
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Old 3rd Nov 2005, 21:38
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Bernie Ecclestone's BBJ goes under the callsign of Formula 1, very cool.
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Old 3rd Nov 2005, 22:07
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I believe Bernies "BBJ" is actually a 146!
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Old 4th Nov 2005, 15:45
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Lego

The Lego bird
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Old 5th Nov 2005, 18:33
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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.
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Old 5th Nov 2005, 21:21
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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!)
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