As a very junior female ATCO I once had to speak to a military helicopter calling itself Swallow 69. Couldn't talk for blushing!

I always liked Spanair, it sounds quite like the word spanair but when it appears mandatory that it is pronounced in a Manuel type accent and has a non-silent A on the front of it

Spanair - I like their version of checking in on freq

"Climbing as cleared!"

None of this SID, passing level, cleared level or callsign nonsense!!

"Midland 331" was a certain sound about it.

Twenty years ago, it was the "goldmine" flight Teesside-Heathrow.


92 full economy fares, LCC costs. Maybe Midland were the first LCC?


Howsabout "Jetset"?

331

In US airspace,

TACA .......Usually called TACO (like the Mexican fast food)
by atc...
Quite funny I think

SNAPPER69........

When the Canadian Forces still had T-114's as thier primary jet trainer, one instructor had this callsign when heading out for a weekend of R&R.

Giantkiller ! They work around Norfolk VA. Got transferred to them on the way back from Sanford one afternoon - quite entertaining !

Don'y know exactly who uses it but I've heard 'LEGO 1' a couple of times. The tempation to ask if that was a lego plane or if they'd built it themselves had to be resisted.
Also 'Formula one' sounds quite good and certainly appropriate. Wonder if it's Bernie?

I remember a pair of Luftwaffe F4s using the c/s "Hitman 1&2" a few years ago - that was pretty cool, especially as the leader had quite a deep, gruff voice! I think they were from Wittmundhafen.

I also remember another time when a colleague had a call from a pair of USAF A10s c/s Gunhog. For some reason he thought they were called Kellogg, like the british cereal. The A10 mate kept saying "Sir the callsign is Gunhog," to which my oppo replied ", Kellog roger." After the third attempt to explain it the Yank gave up, left the CTR and went en-route VFR. The rest of us were in stitches. To this day, my colleague still maintains that they were c/s Kellogg!

Another call sign site

Check 6

:ok:

Brain Fade

Callsign "Lego"

ICAO Callsign: Lego
IATA Code:
ICAO Code: LGE
Known As: Lego
Full Name: Lego System A/S
Country: Denmark
Web Site: www.lego.com


ICAO Callsign: Lego
IATA Code:
ICAO Code: LGO
Known As: Lego
Full Name: Lego Company
Country: Denmark
Web Site: www.lego.com

and


ICAO Callsign: Formula
IATA Code:
ICAO Code: FOR
Known As: Formula One Management
Full Name: Formula One Management Limited
Country: United Kingdom
Web Site:


Useful site for decodes

I have heard a story from Northern Norway during a military exercise.

Drake01(British Lynx) came flying into a TMA. The controller replied to the Lynx:" Grape01, blah blah blah..."
Lynx:"It is DRAKE sir, not grape!!!":}

Cato In a similar vein, "Emirates" is often called "Haemmeroids"

Lon

errrrr.. thanks?:ok:

Used to have a "PeeBee Air" airline in south asia sometimes back.

During busy/peak traffic period where transmission is quick and fast, you can hear "Pubic Hair" coming out... :E

Allegedly there was an airline based in Goa called Goa Way:p

The RAF op callsigns are the best without a doubt!

WIZARD and stuff it's great

We work a bunch of fun ones...

DOOM for some of the BUFFS...

OPEC for some KC-10's...

But my all time favorite was way back in the 90's. It was the FIRST all female crew in a C-141. Some odd ball in operations gave them the call sign.....


BROAD!!!!!!

Ya just have to love the irony there <G>...

regards

Scott

My favorite, leading my 4-ship of RF4's home to EDAM, was WiBi.

"WiBi, on initial" pronounced "We Be" on initial. Zweibruecken Twr responded, "We Be expecting you".

Still chortling over two VORs in Eastern China though, "Fuquing" FQG (south of ZSPD)..... and "Wanquing" , up near Dalian

rouge
 

I had an American C-130 at my field last year. His callsign was "rouge"..When I first saw the strip with the callsign, I expected a flying version of the Moulin rouge:ok:

TWR:"Rouge13 taxi to parking in front of the tower, and send your cargo up here. EXPEDITE"

:p :p :p

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.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/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?)