"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Marco Rispoli wrote:

I do a radio check and the lady at the school answers with "I hear you
loud
and clear Marco".

Get used to it. Half the time somebody says "Hello George" when I announce
on
approach, and I haven't been based there for years. Not much danger that
they'll
start calling you "Tennessee", though. :-)

The correct form of shortening a callsign here in the UK is
to use the G and the last two letters. So for my plane, G-DOGG,
it would be Golf Golf Golf (yes, a mouthful, I know!). Anyway,
I learned to fly in the US. When I was flying in the club at Cardiff
the planes I flew most often were a couple of Tomahawks, one
with the reg G-BNUY and one G-BSVY. Whenever I flew one
of those, the guys in ATC (I think it was just J.C.) would, because
of my US training, shorten my callsing to just "Yankee".

Paul