Brymon...no...British!
 

Just wondering how many other ATCOs in the UK have spent the past few days starting transmissions with that? I was particularly guilty towards the end of my duty today, fortunately some of the crew were at it before I was.

Very annoying, especially as the trigraph is only one letter different and you're so damn used to the callsigns!

Same thing happened when CityFlyer started using BAW callsigns last year:

"Flyer eight si..... errr no, sorry, I mean SPEEDBIRD eight six..." :)

The Crews were often just as gulity as me, as often I would use SpeedBird and they would reply with Flyer!

All sorted now though..

Rgds

Bex (Back to my old self I see;) )

CRX.....

Cross.....oops, sorry, Swiss123 :)

WF.

And of course the Crossair aircraft that now use SWISS.

Very helpul - with SWISSWINGS on frequency, the pilots getting it wrong bless them and me looking at the radar and seeing CRX and saying Crossair!!


AAAAAAAAAAghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

BEE
 

Why can't BEE revert to JEA telephony as the company still uses 'Jersey'; or at least a telephony that has some link to BEE? As above- still very confusing when both BEE and BRT are on freq. Maybe Raw Data can shed some light?: :mad:

Lets's do away with all these gimmicky callsigns and revert to basics: "Charlie Romeo X-ray wun too tree, do you read? over!" :)

One A/C on Freq

"Midland 5583 climb to FL370"

"Climb to FL370, BABY 5583?"

"Sorry, yes, Baby 5583 climb to FL370"

"Climbing to FL370, Midland 5583"

When Jersey changed to BEE their r/t callsign officially changed to "Skywalker" (at least that's what's in the ICAO book now); as far as I'm aware the crews refused to use it!

Bit of a shame really, as one of their Dash 8-400s that comes into our place has the registration G-JEDI !!

Arkady,

Climbing "to" a flight level, surely not :eek:

Pontius

The exact wording of the exchange has been modified to protect the innocent

and anyone else finding the BMI pilots 'Baby' quips a bit tedious now?

The other night - 'can we go direct, it's past our bed time?'