Do pilots name the aircraft they fly usually

[Going Up]

I named the first multi engine and single engine i ever flew

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I used to call the Jetstream a whistling (other name for poop) can.. Does that count?

 

[wildfreightess]

At my flight school, we had to sweet talk the twin comanche, scratch her behind the instrument panel, and call her "Precious" so the darn thing wouldn't break again.

 

[Going Up]

At my flight school, we had to sweet talk the twin comanche, scratch her behind the instrument panel, and call her "Precious" so the darn thing wouldn't break again.

That's funny

 

[pilot4500]

When I worked at Ram Air Freight we had a Seneca called the Brown Bomber, and a Cherokee 6 called Ugly Betty. The "Ugly Betty" name could have applied to almost any of their planes though.

 

[Going Up]

I used to call the Jetstream a whistling can.. Does that count?

Im not familiar with jetstreams, but why did you call it a whistling can

 

[CirrusMonkey]

I have lots names for the 200's I fly but I cannot say them on here.

 

[ozziecat35]

We had a Cirrus at my first flight school that ended in JB. To ATC it was always 762 Juliet Bravo, but to us it was 762 Jiggly Boobies.

 

[dasleben]

I call my airplane...Eric. I picked him out of thousands; the rest were all too flat.

 

[rd757]

We had a Cirrus at my first flight school that ended in JB. To ATC it was always 762 Juliet Bravo, but to us it was 762 Jiggly Boobies.

Haha! The flight school I attended had lots of tailnumber derived nicknames. My personal favorite was a Skyhawk that ended in 5FT... it became just "Fat Taco". To make it better, it had a brown/orange paint scheme.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

At my flight school, two of the 172s (7CB, 8VT) were "Charlie Brown" and "Victor Taco" respectively.

One EMB145 I flew had the tail number N9**LL instead of the more customary N9**AE, and consequently I called it Low Lead.

But generally speaking, I don't name the individual airplane.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Im not familiar with jetstreams, but why did you call it a whistling can

The profanity filter deleted the operative adjective. It's supposed to be whistling _(other word for poo)_ can. The J31 also had other nicknames incidentally.

• JetScream
• Wet Dream
• Chuckwagon
• Death Stream
• Wiggly Pig

Rumor has it that when the Europeans had their finest and most brilliant engineers working on the Concorde, an intern developed the Jetstream.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

The profanity filter deleted the operative adjective. It's supposed to be whistling _(other word for poo)_ can. The J31 also had other nicknames incidentally.

The ERJ has also been called the WSCOD.

 

[flyinggreasemnky]

At Colgan, a lot of the Saabs had nicknames based on their tail number or reliability such as 202SR, S**t Rocket (I believe it also got that nickname from a leaking Lav problem).

 

[Autothrust Blue]

At Colgan, a lot of the Saabs had nicknames based on their tail number or reliability such as 202SR, S**t Rocket (I believe it also got that nickname from a leaking Lav problem).

Prop trash unite...lav problems seem to be pretty common in these machines. (NSFW, language)

 

[Roger Roger]

N57RT, an old, beat to crap flight school Duchess: RattleTrap, RatTrap, RoachTrap, RottenTrash, Rendered Transponderless, Really Trashy.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Prop trash unite...lav problems seem to be pretty common in these machines. (NSFW, language)

I'd tip a line guy my entire paycheck if he did that on Christmas

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I'd tip a line guy my entire paycheck if he did that on Christmas

When I was a line guy, I got tipped a c-note for staying late to do lav service on a Falcon. I guess it was a heroic lav dump, I guess.

 

[OCArmory]

We used to have a purple seminole at Westwind that was affectionately referred to as Barney.

 

[n57flyguy]

I'd tip a line guy my entire paycheck if he did that on Christmas

What do you think happens when you leave??