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boondr

boondr

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Of the new "Delta" pilots has been checking in with "Nor......err...DeltaXXXX with you..."

Doh!


Guess it's going to take them a little bit just that it was funny.
 
When you've been doing it for 10-20 years I guess it sticks. I only worked for Mesa for 2 years and then when I was doing some flight instruction when I was on furlough I caught myself with 'Airshuttle err Cessna 1234' a couple of times.
 
When USAirways and America West switched over to everybody using the Cactus callsign it was a mess for a few days. There were a bunch of controllers and pilots who just started saying "cactEWWWESSS" to make sure all their bases were covered.
 
BobDDuck said:
When USAirways and America West switched over to everybody using the Cactus callsign it was a mess for a few days. There were a bunch of controllers and pilots who just started saying "cactEWWWESSS" to make sure all their bases were covered.
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That was a product of the written callsign didn't change at first. We were supposed to call aircraft with the callsign USA350 "Cactus Three-Fifty". That was confusing.

At least Delta/Northwest got it right the phonetics changed at the same time as the callsign.
 
boondr said:
Of the new "Delta" pilots has been checking in with "Nor......err...DeltaXXXX with you..."

Doh!


Guess it's going to take them a little bit just that it was funny.
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So not only were they using the wrong callsign they were also using piss-poor radio terminology (with you)? Shame shame!
 
I don't see what's so bad about "with you." Sure, it's nonstandard, but it's not like it impedes communication.
 
montanapilot said:
it makes you sound like an amateur.
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?
Then 50%+ of the airline pilots I talk to on a daily basis are "amateur". I don't mind it. I understand it, it is a fairly short addition to the standard and is so common it has become the pseudo standard.
 
Buzo said:
It is very tough. I think we should change it to Nordelta.
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I couldn't imagine the pain in the rump that is.

I remember when I jumped ship from "Skyway-ex" to Delta, I was at least a flight engineer for a year so I never really talked on the radio so it was a smoother transition.

Well, usually, when we were flying into smaller "burgh's and ville's" without an operation control tower, the pilots would usually look back and say something like "Hey, ain't you a civilian? You won'TUH he'p us get EEEN diss a-ya POWT?" :)

"Monroe Traffic, Delta 143, a 727, five mile 45 for left downwind, Monroe."
 
BobDDuck said:
When USAirways and America West switched over to everybody using the Cactus callsign it was a mess for a few days. There were a bunch of controllers and pilots who just started saying "cactEWWWESSS" to make sure all their bases were covered.
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Reminds though of one former US Air guy who's method of protest to the new callsign was to check-in as "CactiXXXX"

That was somewhat amusing.
 
Doug Taylor said:
I couldn't imagine the pain in the rump that is.

I remember when I jumped ship from "Skyway-ex" to Delta, I was at least a flight engineer for a year so I never really talked on the radio so it was a smoother transition.

Well, usually, when we were flying into smaller "burgh's and ville's" without an operation control tower, the pilots would usually look back and say something like "Hey, ain't you a civilian? You won'TUH he'p us get EEEN diss a-ya POWT?" :)

"Monroe Traffic, Delta 143, a 727, five mile 45 for left downwind, Monroe."
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Come on doug, be honest...Delta 145 on a 20 mile straight in final for RUnway 6.
 
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