Like, so do you say "Amflight 456", or "Navajo [tail number]" when you're transmitting to a closed tower frequency, or a uncontrolled field? Theres this captain I fly with who is totally anal about me saying our type and tail number instead of our fancy FAA sanctioned callsign. He'll even go as far as make me say the whole entire transmission over again if I accidentally use the fancy one.
One day I looked it up in the AIM, and I couldn't find it anywhere where it says to do this. Basically it says if you have a fancy call sign, then use it. If you don't, then use your type and tail number. If anything, changing your callsign when you are handed off to a CTAF can be seen as trying to obscure your identity and is more likely to get you in trouble.
The way I see it, your call sign is your call sign. If you want to convey to everyone your type, then add "...is a Piper Navajo" at the end of your first transmission or something.
I ask this question of this forum because I imagine a lot more people that fly 135 freight go into uncontrolled airfields and have fancy call signs than any other sector of the industry.
One day I looked it up in the AIM, and I couldn't find it anywhere where it says to do this. Basically it says if you have a fancy call sign, then use it. If you don't, then use your type and tail number. If anything, changing your callsign when you are handed off to a CTAF can be seen as trying to obscure your identity and is more likely to get you in trouble.
The way I see it, your call sign is your call sign. If you want to convey to everyone your type, then add "...is a Piper Navajo" at the end of your first transmission or something.
I ask this question of this forum because I imagine a lot more people that fly 135 freight go into uncontrolled airfields and have fancy call signs than any other sector of the industry.