Tongue-twister Calsigns?
 

Do you have trouble enunciating any particular callsigns?

One that I have heard a pilot stumble over was AYT.
He called up, "Sydney, this is Alfa Yankee Tangee..... errrr... Alfo Yanko Tango ... err ... Yalfo Anky ..... ahh, stuff it, Ay Why Tee!!"

Others get abbreviated out of existence - Polair One's original callsign was Papa Hotel Whisky, which Chucky would shorten to "Parteliski".

Another was Bravo Hotel Uniform, which in JB-speak was "Brartelform".

Got any others?:8

Listening in on the radio one boring day in ops, to hear what must of been a student, trying to give his callsign.

It should have been Golf Oscar Tango Echo Delta, but ended up as Golf Oscar Tango Elka Deco!!!

Oh how we laughed!

The other one was Golf Sierra Sierra Sierra Sierra. How many pilots lost count of their Sierra's I'll never know!!!

Remember years ago on Pumas when we used trigraphs. The Sqn Cdr had a very bad stutter - the junior pilot made up a trigraph for the Boss (who was to lead a 3 ship to Germany). The trigraph? Papa Papa Alpha. He handed over the lead before reaching Manston!:}

Any callsign with a combination of Whiskeys and Yankees is asking for trouble!!

Yiskey isn't too bad ;)

Callsign ending in -WWW used to known as Treble Scotch...

"US Coast Guard this is 'Luna C' "



I named my sailboat after me Mum's Mum "Luna Cooper" thus the name "Luna C".

It is quite descriptive of the state of affairs aboard the boat on most occasions.

Most of the callsigns for Silverstone were tongue-twisters, try using purple-purple-bravo for a whole day!

Bulldog at Compton Abbas has G RRRR. It is rumoured that ATCO's keep saying to him "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

I once heard someone with the trigraph EBC call up "Eggy, Barley, Charlow"; it's twenty years ago and I still chuckle - easily pleased.

XKE was almost guaranteed to trip me up.

VKZ wasn't much better.

I'm easily tripped up, though.

Off thread slightly but tied into a post above I do remember a morse instructor who had a stutter (not in morse, you understand, hence his liking fot it) who informed me that the morse for a comma was dah, dah, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, di, dah, dah.

G-HHHH, a R44 the other day...had to focus on that one!

OK, someone had to do it!

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.asp...regmark=G-RRRR

? FIXED-WING SELF-LAUNCHING MOTOR GLIDER ?

Maybe G-GRRR or G-GGRR

Disguise Delimit -

Flying with a friend recently, also had big problems with YT -

Yango Tankee
Yanko Tangee
Yangee Tanko

Were all used at some point in the flight. Oh how the time just zoomed by.

I used to fly a 206B with the registration of 707 SJ.

For some reason ATC regularly used to get it all mixed.

Another one was 268 ST. Not particuarly difficult, but I remember a trainee controller threw out just about every combination of letters and numbers imaginable before getting it about half right. By the time she had finished we were already half way through the airspace.

I had to use RED RED ROMEO at Silverstone one year, a nightmare for someone who can't really pronounce R's.:O

I was WHITE WHITE ALPHA the following year, Thank F**k!:}

A certain RAF heli pilot with a stutter went on an exchange tour with the Army Air Corps in the early nineties. They thoughtfully gave him the callsign "Foxtrot Four Four".

I don't think he ever got beyond his Fer-Fer-Fer, Fer-Fer-Fer- callsign............. :uhoh:

A passenger once told another currious passenger that the pilot calls the aircraft Tango Mango Wankee. What she meant was Tango Mike Yankee. :ok:

Flew through France a while ago and going through Lyon zone, I received from the ATC current weather and he ended it with Quebec Foxicle. Having flown in Germany for several years, I was used to QNH and not QFE, and I did not clue in to Quebec Foxicle from the French controller. Had to call my second shipmate, he was French, and asked him what was a Quebec Foxicle, Thinking some slanderous comment about me a Canuck and possibly being from Quebec. He told me that it was Quebec Fox Echo. My reply, a few seconds later, was, ooohhh. :O We had a good chuckle at that at the next fuel stop!

Some years ago I used to fly the Ecureil G-WWWW, which had been owned by Seagrams Whisky and that was invariably just called 'Double whisky, Double Whisky'.

Over here in Nigeria quite a number of pilots have had a problem with 5N-AOA, which has been called Olfa Asca Olfa on occasion :)

G-ZULU, even experienced air trafficers stumble after starting "GOLF ZULU..."

Back to the Silverstone callsigns. The North used to be the colour followed by a number, the South was the colour followed by a letter. Our ops took great delight in having me as PINK PINK ONE on on year Followed by PURPLE PURPLE ONE the next:* G:mad:S