twisted callsigns
 

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

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?"

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

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"!

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

Heard on the radio the other day:

"Elvis"

Probably a B200

(King Air) :D

"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).

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

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


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

Callsign
 

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

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:

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


Bear 555

Indeed there was an airline called Goa Way...

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

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"

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

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

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

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!

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!

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?)