No Callsign?

v1valarob said:
There is a little grey tomahawk that uses the call sign little grey tomahawk out in State College, PA. At least we know what we are looking for.
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Haha I know the CFI that flies that plane.

He is a good guy and sometimes people have given him attitude for saying it.
 
I'm sure the impressions would be funny, but i'd want to punch you in the face if you corrected me on saying any traffic in the area?

Your location says Seymour? Seymour, CT per chance?
 
I can hardly distinguish aircraft colors while in the air. They all look the same to me. I would rather know what model of airplane, position, and a callsign to address them by. I can usually tell what kind of airplane it is before I can see the color.
 
i drink alot of these. 12-14 hour days require some sort of fuel.
 

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Color/type/position/intentions.

I.e. "White and black twin piper x miles x cardinal direction/ x pattern entry for runway x."
 
Maybe it was the way I learned to fly, but I just don't make any effort to retain what someone's N number is...I can easily recall type and position, but I think I mentally block your voice when you start saying November bla bla bla bla...Just like when i'm at a controlled field, I just don't give a crap what the N number is, and it serves me no purpose what so ever.
 
MikeOH58 said:
Maybe it was the way I learned to fly, but I just don't make any effort to retain what someone's N number is...I can easily recall type and position, but I think I mentally block your voice when you start saying November bla bla bla bla...Just like when i'm at a controlled field, I just don't give a crap what the N number is, and it serves me no purpose what so ever.
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makes sense to me. I dont really care about anything except position, especially if they are bustin' out a 1/4 mile final in front of me.
 
It's pretty easy and the way I think the aim should be written for non-towered ops. Single engine, Type and color ie: "Red and white 150 down wind, runway 26" and for twins and above the type and "N" number is fine ie: " Lear 123AB downwind, runway 26" or twin Cessna/Piper/Beech N123AB downwind, runway 26.

In one instance color and type are more important, in the other, performance is more imortant. As in, do I need to keep my speed up, should I advise the faster aircraft to pass, should I make a tight pattern, should I not pull out in front of this guy cause the Lear might be here a lot faster than the 150. Or should I be looking for the red and white 150, since I'm in the blue and red one. You get the idea.

PS. This thread will probably die, cause every time I finally comment, I seem to kill threads. :)
 
I just don't talk on the radio, that way I don't have people on the intrawebs posting about my technique.
 
If this was the standard phraseology I'd buy a flight school and paint the planes in the most ridiculous complicated paint schemes I could think of just to watch people try to describe them on the CTAF. Why does stuff like that make entertain me? :dunno:
 
JordanD said:
If this was the standard phraseology I'd buy a flight school and paint the planes in the most ridiculous complicated paint schemes I could think of just to watch people try to describe them on the CTAF. Why does stuff like that make entertain me? :dunno:
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haha

"Green and blue with purple stripes, sharks mouth on the cowl, and spiraley spinner Cessna on downwind"


I think this could work!
 
ppragman said:
Lol, some times I don't even give that. Best bet, type, location, intentions. Or, "Cessna 206, Eldred Rock, 2500' for Haines" is miles better than "123AB is Over Eldred Rock at 2500."
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Cherokee, Sisters, three thousand for Hoonah.
 
MikeOH58 said:
I'm sure the impressions would be funny, but i'd want to punch you in the face if you corrected me on saying any traffic in the area?
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People who correct you in the air or on the ground are annoying.

OTOH, you'd have to go along way to punch the authors of the AIM! :bandit:
 
It depends. In a glider, the fact that I am a glider, and my position relative to other aircraft and the field is important. The type of glider, and tail number are irrelevant to just about everyone else other than me.

Even in airplanes, I find it more useful to call out the position of other traffic. Since I don't know their tail number, I'll usually call their color/type/position.

A typical radio call for me would be "Pawnee is high right base for 18, number two behind Twin Otter, departing white Cessna in sight..."

If there are multiple aircraft of your type in the immediate area, an abbreviated callsign then makes sense.
 
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