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Call signs
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? |
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