Tail number history shown in flight deck - why?
It's 30 yrs since I went longhaul , and learned about Selcal .
Somewhere in my brain is info about VHF Selcal , but most is HF.
About 15 yrs ago [ 1 yr before retirement ] , was the one and only selcal I've had .
The '' Bing Bong '' , made us both jump ..
'' 'Wot's that ? '' ... Took a few seconds to scan around and find the [ Blue ? ] light .
rgds condor .
Somewhere in my brain is info about VHF Selcal , but most is HF.
About 15 yrs ago [ 1 yr before retirement ] , was the one and only selcal I've had .
The '' Bing Bong '' , made us both jump ..
'' 'Wot's that ? '' ... Took a few seconds to scan around and find the [ Blue ? ] light .
rgds condor .
It remained UK-registered throughout. The Singapore livery was on the port side only. CONCORDE SST : Singapore Concorde Services
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1384284
Thanks Eckhard,
I did wonder because HF takes a lot of effort for not much reward but it is reliable even if hard to hear. My wife was an operator at Speedbird London back in the late 1970s , Along with more 'individualistic BA Captains there were Texan drawling Braniff pilots and JAL pilots who spoke poor English trying to give position reports as they trekked across USSR. None of them coming across very clearly on the rather aged , even then , SSB HF units
I did wonder because HF takes a lot of effort for not much reward but it is reliable even if hard to hear. My wife was an operator at Speedbird London back in the late 1970s , Along with more 'individualistic BA Captains there were Texan drawling Braniff pilots and JAL pilots who spoke poor English trying to give position reports as they trekked across USSR. None of them coming across very clearly on the rather aged , even then , SSB HF units
Having spoken to flight crew about usage, it seems over some areas crews still use HF quite a lot, the example I was given was over large areas of Africa where the ATC is deemed to be not that great where crews communicate with each other with regards to positions, localized weather etc.
'Speedbird London' has long since disappeared, another casualty of cutbacks, with our ground radio checks of HF systems and SEL-CAL functions now relying on calling up Stockholm radio who monitor the airwaves on set frequencies and are always helpful.
Those were of course pseudo-US registrations for the IAD-DFW leg flown by Braniff, nothing to do with the Singapore arrangement (Air France aircraft were similarly registered for the CDG-IAD-DFW route).
