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F-86 pilot over Nth Korea " May Day, May Day, Gopher 4, Seperated from my section and surrounded by five Migs."
Section Leader " 4, you got a Distinguished Flying Cross ?"
Gopher 4 - affirmative."
"Well get on with it and do some distinguished flying!"
Section Leader " 4, you got a Distinguished Flying Cross ?"
Gopher 4 - affirmative."
"Well get on with it and do some distinguished flying!"
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Whilst it may seem gay to call it a 'Super King Air', it's what they're actually called. Most will just shorten it to 'King Air', but no point getting up them because they're calling it by it's correct name.
morno
Whilst it may seem gay to call it a 'Super King Air', it's what they're actually called. Most will just shorten it to 'King Air', but no point getting up them because they're calling it by it's correct name.
morno
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Traffic XXX, XXX, an IFR boeing 737-800NG taxiing.......
Traffic XXX, XXX a Cessna 172 RG taxiing.....
Traffic XXX, XXX a Piper Malibu Jet Prop taxiing.....
Yeah you're right, they are the aircraft types but coooooooooooome onnnnnnnn...........
Traffic XXX, XXX a Cessna 172 RG taxiing.....
Traffic XXX, XXX a Piper Malibu Jet Prop taxiing.....
Yeah you're right, they are the aircraft types but coooooooooooome onnnnnnnn...........
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morno, true, i see your point using the full....
but i find the 'super' a bit wanky on the radio- nobody really knows the difference.
Most guys don't bother saying it, but some do...
if you wanted to take it to the extreme, may as well say Beechcraft Super KingAir...
or Piper Aircraft Incorporated Papa Alpha Two Eight One Sixty One Warrior Two......
I didn't quite get up them, i just wanted to sound cool (or super duper) too
but i find the 'super' a bit wanky on the radio- nobody really knows the difference.
Most guys don't bother saying it, but some do...
if you wanted to take it to the extreme, may as well say Beechcraft Super KingAir...
or Piper Aircraft Incorporated Papa Alpha Two Eight One Sixty One Warrior Two......
I didn't quite get up them, i just wanted to sound cool (or super duper) too
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A Kingair is a A,B,C,E (etc) 90 or 100. (but not a Beech 99....)
A Super Kingair is a Kingair 200, B200, B200C, B300.
Similar but quite different aircraft. I know several people who use the different terms 'on air' because they are or were rated on the different aircraft; not because they are w@nkers.
Cleared that up?
A Super Kingair is a Kingair 200, B200, B200C, B300.
Similar but quite different aircraft. I know several people who use the different terms 'on air' because they are or were rated on the different aircraft; not because they are w@nkers.
Cleared that up?
At an aerobatic competition in 2008 a bunch of people were flying the same Super D and every radio call used the full name Super Decathlon. To avoid confusion, as they look the same from a distance, I decided I should also use the full name for mine - Standard Decathlon.
There are a number of Decathlons (actually Standard Decathlons) based at Moorabbin and the tower often refers to each as a Bellanca, which happens to be correct for those. Friend with a Citabria used to hate being called a Bellanca as his was made by Champion. More fun when a visitor arrived in a newer Super D which was made by American Champion. "Follow the Bellanca ... " - "Champion sighted but not the Bellanca" - just in my imagination - the tower guys and gals do a grand job but we just have a chuckle to ourselves.
One of my students at one time worked as ATC elsewhere so I thought I would learn a few things. Inbound to Moorabbin one day, some time after calling at the inbound reporting point and having instructions to join the circuit the tower asked our position - my student was speechless, couldn't think how to respond then he blurted out "Why are they asking us that?"
Late one Sunday arvo on a beaut day. XXXXX called at an inbound reporting point. A big event as he was solo having regained his medical after a long struggle. Very few others in the air but it was amazing how many recognised his voice/aeroplane and made it known they realized the significance of that flight to him. "Hello XXXXX ..... Gday XXXXX .........XXXXX .... XXXXX etc."
More recently, a student primed for the new procedures at Moorabbin on taxi to 31 so needed clearance to cross a number of inactive runways ".... request clearance to cross all active runways." Response was laughter.
There are a number of Decathlons (actually Standard Decathlons) based at Moorabbin and the tower often refers to each as a Bellanca, which happens to be correct for those. Friend with a Citabria used to hate being called a Bellanca as his was made by Champion. More fun when a visitor arrived in a newer Super D which was made by American Champion. "Follow the Bellanca ... " - "Champion sighted but not the Bellanca" - just in my imagination - the tower guys and gals do a grand job but we just have a chuckle to ourselves.
One of my students at one time worked as ATC elsewhere so I thought I would learn a few things. Inbound to Moorabbin one day, some time after calling at the inbound reporting point and having instructions to join the circuit the tower asked our position - my student was speechless, couldn't think how to respond then he blurted out "Why are they asking us that?"
Late one Sunday arvo on a beaut day. XXXXX called at an inbound reporting point. A big event as he was solo having regained his medical after a long struggle. Very few others in the air but it was amazing how many recognised his voice/aeroplane and made it known they realized the significance of that flight to him. "Hello XXXXX ..... Gday XXXXX .........XXXXX .... XXXXX etc."
More recently, a student primed for the new procedures at Moorabbin on taxi to 31 so needed clearance to cross a number of inactive runways ".... request clearance to cross all active runways." Response was laughter.
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There is in fact no longer such thing as a Super Kingair; they are all now officially Kingairs as the 'Super' was dropped in 1996.
See Hawker Beechcraft
and Beechcraft Wikipedia
See Hawker Beechcraft
and Beechcraft Wikipedia
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A friend of mine in SA training on the DA-42 Twinstars...
Adelaide Tower: ABC traffic is a helicopter, Polair in your two o'clock.
ABC: Ahhh yes we've got him on TCAS
Adelaide Tower: Polair traffic in your eight o'clock, a Twinstar
(insert pause)
Polair: Not visual with traffic
Adelaide Tower: He's pretty skinny
Polair: (sounding a little bemused) We've got a light twin visual
Adelaide Tower: That's him
Adelaide Tower: ABC traffic is a helicopter, Polair in your two o'clock.
ABC: Ahhh yes we've got him on TCAS
Adelaide Tower: Polair traffic in your eight o'clock, a Twinstar
(insert pause)
Polair: Not visual with traffic
Adelaide Tower: He's pretty skinny
Polair: (sounding a little bemused) We've got a light twin visual
Adelaide Tower: That's him
Twinstar is also an alternative (mostly US) name for a Twin Squirrel helicopter.
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Heard this one in Mackay a little while back.
ABC: Tower, can we ask, would runway 14 be available for our landing?
Twr: ABC, you sure can, go ahead.
(pause...)
ABC: Request runway 14 if possible
Twr: ABC, approved, cleared visual approach left base runway 14.
ABC: Tower, can we ask, would runway 14 be available for our landing?
Twr: ABC, you sure can, go ahead.
(pause...)
ABC: Request runway 14 if possible
Twr: ABC, approved, cleared visual approach left base runway 14.
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ABC: Tower, can we ask, would runway 14 be available for our landing?
Twr: ABC, you sure can, go ahead.
(pause...)
ABC: Request runway 14 if possible
Twr: ABC, approved, cleared visual approach left base runway 14.
Twr: ABC, you sure can, go ahead.
(pause...)
ABC: Request runway 14 if possible
Twr: ABC, approved, cleared visual approach left base runway 14.
Would have been funnier still if the tower had denied him!!!
