I heard last week a new one ' Shadow 01 ' - Anyone know who runs this callsign

there used to be a number of comic book based callsigns, but a look through the book - sad or what! - only reveals
Batman- Executive, Switzerland
Robin - Robinton, Dom Rep
Penguin - Brit Antarctic Survey

I think Joker was nicked some time ago by the military of a certain country whose blushes I will spare.

:p tori

Hmm.. cool callsigns. I have to add one from Finland, FPC117

Finnpower

been called also spitfire 117 =)

ours is quite dull really,

police ***


i would like to propose one of the following:

plod ***
fuzzwing ***
rozzer ***
fedair (is that taken
filth ***

me thinks my fav is plod ***

any comments?

Worked an F-117 years ago arriving for an airshow. "Shaba 1". Shaba is Arabic for ghost.

flyboy519

My fading memory seems to recall Shadow ** was used by the gentlepersons from Mildenhall.

I heard of a F3 four-ship using POTATO as their callsign, thus leading to the inevitable check in. "One potato, two potato..."

Anyone know if there's a G-SPOT around somewhere (i'm still talking about callsigns :p ) ?

Ginge :cool:

There was a story going around many years ago about the LATCC Mil concroller who received the calls

" 'ello"
" 'ello 'ello"
" 'ello 'ello 'ello"
"London, Copper formation checking in"

Also, 25 - 30 years ago there was an Italian motor glider (I think) with the registration I-F**K

G-SPOT was a P68, but it was destroyed.

I wonder if EI-EIO is still about? Ideal for an agrarian aviator called MacDonald perhaps...

Gingerbread.. I had to use potato as the callsign during EFT, trust me, it is not cool or funny. We were embarrassed to use the radio.

Talking of "Jedi", I was working ScotMil earlier this year "Jedi " 1 to 4 checked in, the contoller responded with....

"Jedi, Identified are you, advisory radar service" (difficult to type to the way Yoda sounds) :D

Sadly we occassionally have to use "Monica"......DOH!

I seem to remember when Boeing brought the demonstrator of their new widebody into LHR for the first time it had the callsign "Boeing 777".

Heard that a female British controller uttered the immortal words; "Boeing 777, confirm your a/c type?"

:O

Our company has a cool callsign "Saltire" keeping the flag flying!!

worked with a (lady) controller who famously transmitted "Harvard formation, report your A/c type?"

this was the same person who turned to the tower controller & said "has the radio-fail A/c called you yet?" !!!

Talking of G-SPOT reminds me of GIIII - still flying - who was regularly referred to as "four eyes"
:p :D
Tori

What about 'Slowline', or was it without the W... (Slovak Airlines)?

French Letters
 

When I was a military ATCO, the French military used to send some air to air refueling tankers on operations over East Anglia. The callsigns were (honest) FUKCK and !!!!C. Our lady ATCOs always blushed.

Giasajob

Gisajob There was also a !!!!D I think.

Was down the hole at Sopley one day, lots of brass visiting, one poor female controller was having problems trying to get a reply from him and was getting really upset. Top brass asked what was the matter and answer came back, "Sir, it's F:mad: d. "
It went very quiet.

Several moons ago when "Ruebens" callsign was not that common; we got the question sometimes; "can you repeat your call sign please" and my reply would be (if they didn't get in the first, second and third attempt); "the fat woman painter... Reubens?" most reply's would be "..Ahh Reubens.!"

Not too long ago i was a RELAXed dude, and we had some fun with the way we would call in; the way to pronounce relax.

Pointer :E

When Jersey European changed to FlyBE didn't they have a new callsign "Skywalker"........didn't catch on.
But they do have a Dash8 with the reg G-JEDI

to the flying cop,
yip the call sign fedair is taken up by a charter company in south africa

Everyone at EDLV had a laugh when V-Bird (May god rest their souls!) announced their selection of "Veebee" as their callsign.
Lots of vibis available here: http://shop.beate-uhse.com ...:)

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'

Police callsigns .....
 

I would suggets the rather cooler ....

ROTOCOP :cool:

"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?

A/C inbound to Brest, France:

"Request brest information..." :p

Trislander

Surely, BMI Baby would be a good example..

Aircraft: blah blah blah

Atc: Roger, Baby 123, cleared direct Brest

Regards,

Shuttlebus

Startrek formation still gets me!!

Does anyone have the lowdown on the origin of waypoint sobstory, half way between Nuuk and Kulusuk in Greenland?

There must be a reason.

Thanks for mentioning Waterski, Wycombe :)

7 7 7 7

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...:D

Always take a breather before reading back "BRT1T"..........:8

or even BRT1TS that flies into Birmingham

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 :\

Could be worse with Ascott screwing up the skies here in SOCAL as they did when I was in the mil.

Bernie Ecclestone's BBJ goes under the callsign of Formula 1, very cool.

I believe Bernies "BBJ" is actually a 146!

Lego
 

The Lego bird
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...s/CRW_5434.jpg

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.

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!):cool: