"Flash" Terh,?

sldauby

sldauby

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Hello Everyone,

Listening to JFK Ground earlier, I heard a Comair flight stating that they had an aircraft swap. Their first aircraft from a "Flash Bravo" and the new one was a "Flash Charlie." The pilot proceeded to ask if this change could be reflected in their flight plan. The controller made the changes.

Now, what does "flash" mean? Unless I misunderstood the term, I have never heard this before.

Thanks for your help.
 
Maybe changing the equipment type? Although the correct phraseology would by "slant" not "slash" (which I'm guessing you heard as "flash"). Also, I can't understand why Comair wouldn't be slant /Q or /W.

Sooo... I really have no idea.
 
Re: "Flash" Term?

Hmm interesting...I can definitely imagine "slash" as being the term.

Thanks for the reply.
 
You would think I should know what the heck they are talking about. The only thing that comes to mind is slash(/). But that refers to the type of equipment the aircraft has.
 
Flight plan aircraft equipment designatures. Like /G = GPS or something or rather.

That...

or...

slant sierra =

SNAKES ON A PLANE
 
Do the airlines ever add a letter to the flight number to differentiate in someway?
 
I think sometimes when there's a duplicate flight number in the system. Like Northwest 432 November
 
SteveC said:
Do the airlines ever add a letter to the flight number to differentiate in someway?
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We do our flights different than the other Delta Connection carriers. It's funky sometimes. Mostly we just take the first or second digit of the flight number. For example DL 5413 would be operated as Comair 413. The rest use their callsign and the whole flight number such as Acey 4213, CHQ 6234 or Freedom 6012 and so on.
 
We dropped out first number a while ago. Our flight numbers run 22XX through 25XX. Because our ATC identifier is JIA we constantly got confused with JetLink, JetBlue and Jazz. Not to mention our planning department would constantly run 2247 and 2237 right next to each other. We started getting fined and to solve the problem we dropped the leading 2. Somehow 247 and 237 is less confusing. We still use the full four digit number with ops, dispatch and the general public.

The trailing letter is if you have the same flight number on two different aircraft in the same airspace. We used to have a LGA-PHL flight with continuing service to Knoxville. Not surprisingly the LGA leg often ran late and the second section (to TYS), which was flown by a different crew and different airframe, often left before the LGA flight arrived. I remember being cleared to land on 27R and on the roll out being cleared to take off of 35 at Kilo. Confusing to say the least. Now, if they were paying attention, they would assign that second flight a trailing letter, normally "A", to prevent confusion. Well, it prevents confusing for everybody except the poor FO calling up clearance delivery and not reading the top of the release to see that they tacked the extra letter on. "I'm sorry sir, we don't have a flight plane for you. Where did you say you were going?"
 
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