Call signs

buttman wrote:
When I used to fly Cessna 152's and 172's, I'd always just say "Cessna
12345...". Now that I fly Piper Warriors, I began using "Piper
12345...", but then I realized no one else says just "Piper", they say
"Seneca 12345", or "Twin Comanche 12345...", so I began using the
callsign "Warrior 12345..." to fit in with the rest. This makes more
sense, considering the point of putting your aircraft type before your
tail number is to specify what you are. If you just say "Cessna", you
don't know if its a Citation X, or a 140, just that it's a Cessna. And
you'd think with all the 172s in existance I'd come across a single
instance of a pilot using "Skyhawk" in their call sign, but I've yet
to witness one.

Anyways, so I begin using "Warior" instead of Piper. When I got my
instrument rating and started doing IFR stuff, I noticed no matter
what I use, ATC always addresses me as "Cherokee 12345". Once I even
tried to get an IFR clearance that went something like this:

Me: Clearance, Warroir 4458U on the ground at LUK, IFR to HZY

[45 seconds of silence]...

Me [slower]: Clearance, Warroir 4458U on the grund at LUK, IFR to HZY

Controller: Aircraft calling, say call sign again

Me: 4...4...5...8...U

controller: Cherokee 4458U you are cleared to....

What I think happened here is that he misunderstood "Warrior" as me
saying "four" or something. When I file all I say for type is PA-28,
and to ATC guys a PA-28 is a Cherokee. So from that point on, I now
use Cherokee as my call sign, even though it says "Warrior III" on the
side, and nowhere in the POH or anywhere else does it have the word
"Cherokee". I know its not a big deal, but I was just wondering, what
do all the other Warrior people use?

FWIW. I spent 20 years in the Air Force as a pilot. After retiring I got
my civilian ratings. After reading the "instructions", I called myself
"November nnnn" because that's the way it was listed in the "book" (at least
at that time-35 years ago). It took a while, listening to other aircraft
calling in, to find everone was using their aircraft type in lieu of
November.
The instructions (at that time) never said to say type aircraft as your call
sign prefix. I felt rather foolish when I finally realized what was really
being used.

--

Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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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.

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message
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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 call Citation 500's and 501's as "Twin Cessna" traffic when they're
clogging up a Flght Level with their slow moving, slow climbing lethargy. A
200 knot, 500 FPM climb-out in the mid twenties? You gotta be kidding...

Chip, ZTL

"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.

I fly Archers, arrows and seminoles. Normaly call up as archer so and so,
or arrow so and so... and they call me back wtih the model nuber i gave
them, but any radio traffic after that i become cherokee.... be it that Im
in the archer or the arrow. Got really strange flying the seminole into
SOCAL and was reported to another aircraft as a duchess...... (now i wasn't
going to step that low and make my future radio calls as duchess mind you...
felt it was a good time to simply become NOVEMBER such and such....)

Flying the 172's I always just went as "Cessna" sure its teh same as you
would hear on a 152 or 182, but in a tower environment the speeds aren't all
that drastically different (now cruise is a different story!) and they all
look similar from a distance. Centurion is different, as are the twin
cessna's.... I've NEVER heard a citation call in as a cessna... they always
called in as Citation Suchandsuch.

Most of my xc flights now are IFR so I dont' really sweat it out to much
unless they really butcher my number, or give me something unrealistic
"N12345 climb one five thousand by yucca" I'll call back something like
"CHEROKEE 12345 Unable 1-5-thousand" And when VFR will usually just call up
as what I'm flying, unless another controller started calling me
cherokee.... then i stick to it. Looks like a cherokee... same speed
envelope as a cherokee..... only im an archer... go fig.



"buttman" wrote in message
ups.com...
When I used to fly Cessna 152's and 172's, I'd always just say "Cessna
12345...". Now that I fly Piper Warriors, I began using "Piper
12345...", but then I realized no one else says just "Piper", they say
"Seneca 12345", or "Twin Comanche 12345...", so I began using the
callsign "Warrior 12345..." to fit in with the rest. This makes more
sense, considering the point of putting your aircraft type before your
tail number is to specify what you are. If you just say "Cessna", you
don't know if its a Citation X, or a 140, just that it's a Cessna. And
you'd think with all the 172s in existance I'd come across a single
instance of a pilot using "Skyhawk" in their call sign, but I've yet to
witness one.

Anyways, so I begin using "Warior" instead of Piper. When I got my
instrument rating and started doing IFR stuff, I noticed no matter what
I use, ATC always addresses me as "Cherokee 12345". Once I even tried
to get an IFR clearance that went something like this:

Me: Clearance, Warroir 4458U on the ground at LUK, IFR to HZY

[45 seconds of silence]...

Me [slower]: Clearance, Warroir 4458U on the grund at LUK, IFR to HZY

Controller: Aircraft calling, say call sign again

Me: 4...4...5...8...U

controller: Cherokee 4458U you are cleared to....

What I think happened here is that he misunderstood "Warrior" as me
saying "four" or something. When I file all I say for type is PA-28,
and to ATC guys a PA-28 is a Cherokee. So from that point on, I now use
Cherokee as my call sign, even though it says "Warrior III" on the
side, and nowhere in the POH or anywhere else does it have the word
"Cherokee". I know its not a big deal, but I was just wondering, what
do all the other Warrior people use?

I cannot verify the truth of this, but the pilot who told
me this tail is crazy enough to do it.

He said he was flying a Stearman cross country, and called
approach with callsign "Boeing 12345" (Stearman having been
aquired by Boeing).

Approach calls "Boeing 12345 reduce to minimum approach speed"

So he hauls back to about 25 knots and the controller watches
his blip come to a halt in the middle of the pattern.

nooneimportant wrote:
I fly Archers, arrows and seminoles. Normaly call up as archer so and so,
or arrow so and so... and they call me back wtih the model nuber i gave
them, but any radio traffic after that i become cherokee.... be it that Im
in the archer or the arrow. Got really strange flying the seminole into
SOCAL and was reported to another aircraft as a duchess...... (now i wasn't
going to step that low and make my future radio calls as duchess mind you...
felt it was a good time to simply become NOVEMBER such and such....)

Flying the 172's I always just went as "Cessna" sure its teh same as you
would hear on a 152 or 182, but in a tower environment the speeds aren't all
that drastically different (now cruise is a different story!) and they all
look similar from a distance. Centurion is different, as are the twin
cessna's.... I've NEVER heard a citation call in as a cessna... they always
called in as Citation Suchandsuch.

Most of my xc flights now are IFR so I dont' really sweat it out to much
unless they really butcher my number, or give me something unrealistic
"N12345 climb one five thousand by yucca" I'll call back something like
"CHEROKEE 12345 Unable 1-5-thousand" And when VFR will usually just call up
as what I'm flying, unless another controller started calling me
cherokee.... then i stick to it. Looks like a cherokee... same speed
envelope as a cherokee..... only im an archer... go fig.



"buttman" wrote in message
ups.com...

When I used to fly Cessna 152's and 172's, I'd always just say "Cessna
12345...". Now that I fly Piper Warriors, I began using "Piper
12345...", but then I realized no one else says just "Piper", they say
"Seneca 12345", or "Twin Comanche 12345...", so I began using the
callsign "Warrior 12345..." to fit in with the rest. This makes more
sense, considering the point of putting your aircraft type before your
tail number is to specify what you are. If you just say "Cessna", you
don't know if its a Citation X, or a 140, just that it's a Cessna. And
you'd think with all the 172s in existance I'd come across a single
instance of a pilot using "Skyhawk" in their call sign, but I've yet to
witness one.

Anyways, so I begin using "Warior" instead of Piper. When I got my
instrument rating and started doing IFR stuff, I noticed no matter what
I use, ATC always addresses me as "Cherokee 12345". Once I even tried
to get an IFR clearance that went something like this:

Me: Clearance, Warroir 4458U on the ground at LUK, IFR to HZY

[45 seconds of silence]...

Me [slower]: Clearance, Warroir 4458U on the grund at LUK, IFR to HZY

Controller: Aircraft calling, say call sign again

Me: 4...4...5...8...U

controller: Cherokee 4458U you are cleared to....

What I think happened here is that he misunderstood "Warrior" as me
saying "four" or something. When I file all I say for type is PA-28,
and to ATC guys a PA-28 is a Cherokee. So from that point on, I now use
Cherokee as my call sign, even though it says "Warrior III" on the
side, and nowhere in the POH or anywhere else does it have the word
"Cherokee". I know its not a big deal, but I was just wondering, what
do all the other Warrior people use?

buttman wrote:
snip
controller: Cherokee 4458U you are cleared to....

What I think happened here is that he misunderstood "Warrior" as me
saying "four" or something. When I file all I say for type is PA-28,
and to ATC guys a PA-28 is a Cherokee. So from that point on, I now use
Cherokee as my call sign, even though it says "Warrior III" on the
side, and nowhere in the POH or anywhere else does it have the word
"Cherokee". I know its not a big deal, but I was just wondering, what
do all the other Warrior people use?

Most (but not all) tower controllers will change a Warrior, Archer,
Dakota callsign to Cherokee. It's not because of speed. The main
reason is that they often have to call you out as traffic for other
aircraft. Cessna drivers often do not know what a Warrior, Archer or
Dakota might look like. Could be a single or a twin for all they know.
Most everyone knows what a Cherokee looks like. In my early flying
days, I was a Cessna-only pilot. I had no idea what Archer or Warrior
was.

Whenever I'm flying a later model PA28, I always use the Cherokee
call sign.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Cessna drivers often do not know what a Warrior, Archer or
Dakota might look like. Could be a single or a twin for all they know.

Most everyone knows what a Cherokee looks like. In my early flying
days, I was a Cessna-only pilot. I had no idea what Archer or Warrior
was.

An interesting observation. Having trained exclusively in Piper
products, I know when I was a new pilot I had no idea what a "Skylane"
was, let alone a "Skymaster" or "Skywagon."

Yet, from a distance, they all look pretty much the same.

Maybe ATC should just call us all "high wings" and "low wings"...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Cessna drivers often do not know what a Warrior, Archer or
Dakota might look like. Could be a single or a twin for all they know.


Most everyone knows what a Cherokee looks like. In my early flying
days, I was a Cessna-only pilot. I had no idea what Archer or Warrior
was.


An interesting observation. Having trained exclusively in Piper
products, I know when I was a new pilot I had no idea what a "Skylane"
was, let alone a "Skymaster" or "Skywagon."

Yet, from a distance, they all look pretty much the same.

Maybe ATC should just call us all "high wings" and "low wings"...

Or eagles and turkeys, respectively. :-)


Matt

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...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"