Cool callsign
 

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)

The coolest would have to be Polar Tiger.

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

Check out this thread currently running in Airlines,Airports and Routes.

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.

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

I like:

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

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".

If the cap fits?
 

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

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.."

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.

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


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

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

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

"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 ........

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

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 !

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

Personal favourite....

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

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

And the winner is...

























... Krasnoyarski (KJC)

Canadian Armed Forces biz jet, CL600 I think.

"Schooner" as in a schooner of beer.

You made that up.



;)

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

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)

"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.

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

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"

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

CRC - Con-air

Operates as fire spotters in Canada I believe.

"Chaos"

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

"Satan" was cool as well.

They had something in common too.

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

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......

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!

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

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?

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"!

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"

Most inappropriate callsign:

SWIFT - Formation of Tucanos are anything but!!!

Gottem all here :ok: