Calling aircraft by make/model/common-name?
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Autothrust Blue
"Well, on the Brasilia..."
Not even Embraer calls it an RJ...And there's really not a lot regional about it, either, when you get to brass tacks.
skydisaster
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I used to do mapping work in a C335. We hot so sick of being called a Skymaster, we just started filing it as a C340. Only Cessna would make a pressurized and non-pressurized version of most of their twins.
Vector4Food
This job would be easier without all the airplanes
Jungle Jet 12 OCLOCK HIGH!
Autothrust Blue
"Well, on the Brasilia..."
"Ai, garacho!"
Stinger
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Traffic 12 o'clock 2 miles, VFR, an airliner.
WTF?!
Oh! A 99, what a retarded airplane.
I never call it an airliner. I always say Beech 99 or just 99.
Stinger
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Sometimes. Guy I work with told someone in the pattern he was following a Regional Jet on final. The jet came on and said "ummm....we're an Embraer Jet..."
A-300F4-622R
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You come back and say "same difference"
Chief Captain
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For some reason, I've noticed that ATC will refer to the CRJ as "regional jet" or "RJ", while the ERJ is called "Embraer".
Bernoulli Fan
Controller
CRJs show up on the strip and the scope as "CRJ2" or whatever series, while ERJs show up as "E135."
When you've loaded both of 'em with bags, they're both RJs.
Chief Captain
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That makes sense now.
USMC-SSGT
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As for the 190...call it whatever. I couldn't care less. FWIW, we are very rarely referred to as an RJ by atc.
When I fly my plane I use "experimental". If its somewhere I may need to be sequenced I tell them "speed compatible with a 150." that usually gives them all they need to work me.
When I fly my plane I use "experimental". If its somewhere I may need to be sequenced I tell them "speed compatible with a 150." that usually gives them all they need to work me.
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