Call signs

Right

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Mike
MU-2


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Maybe ATC should just call us all "high wings" and "low wings"...

Or eagles and turkeys, respectively. :-)

Ahem. That would be "femmes" and "studs", respectively...

;-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

RST Engineering wrote:
Right up until the time that you lose your first engine.

Jim



Which isn't to say high wings don't have their good points. It's just
"off-airport usage" really isn't terribly relevant to the vast majority of
pilots.





'specially when you don't have a second engine. :-)


Matt

Mike Rapoport wrote:

Right

http://www.aeronautics.ru/a/an225001.jpg

Mike
MU-2


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Maybe ATC should just call us all "high wings" and "low wings"...

Or eagles and turkeys, respectively. :-)

Ahem. That would be "femmes" and "studs", respectively...

Priceless, Mike, priceless... :-)


Matt

Chip Jones wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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They being center guys. 20 knots to a tower controller is trivial.


Center guys had the designators changed? Why would they do that?



I thought it was the bloody FRENCH who had the type designators changed, via
ICAO. Right after they got finished butchering our WX format. Apparently,
they don't appreciate the difference between an MD80 and an MD88 (both are
coded MD80), but they do care about the difference between the A320 and
A321...

MD88 has its own type designator according to
http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/ATC/Appendices/atcapda.html

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote:

buttman wrote:
If you just say "Cessna", you
don't know if its a Citation X, or a 140, just that it's a Cessna.

Citation drivers won't let you make that mistake - they'll make darned
sure you know it's a Citation.

The same is true for everyone driving any Cessna larger than a Skylane.
The only ones calling themselves "Cessna" are flying model numbers
lower than 190.

I once had an old timer flight instructor. One day he got to fly one of
his ex-student's Citations, his first time in a jet. He had ball flying
that jet and soon it was time to go back home. He called up the tower (a
busy Class D) and called in "Cessna 12345 9 miles east, landing,
information Charlie". A few minutes later the controller called back, her
voice a few octaves higher and said, "Cessna 12345 are you a CITATON?"
The controllers recognized his deep voice and were used to that voice
flying around in the pistons. Guess you had to be there, but it was good
for a chuckle for all after he landed.

Somehow this has become a "thing" with ATC. All PA28's are Cherokees.
It is because someone got uptight about all the different Pipers that
were PA28's (the ICAO Identifier), but yet named differently. You use
the ICAO 4 letter ID (all aircraft have one, and only ONE), on your
flight plan, BTW. But it seems that one ICAO identifier can encompass
many different aircraft names. Thus the confusion. The Cherokee one
seems to be the one ATC keys in on. Must be the one they use in their
training or something.