Simtim From United States, joined Mar 2006, 46 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 7596 times:
Greetings All,
The other day I was plane spotting at PHNL (Honolulu) and a China Airlines Boeing 747 came in to land. Up until this point I had thought their callsign was "China Air" or simply "China." However, I distinctly heard the pilot and controller use the callsign of "Dynasty." Therefore, when the plane became visible I was surprised to see the China Airlines livery. Can anyone else confirm this?
- Tim
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Tom12 From United Kingdom (Scotland), joined Dec 2005, 1078 posts, RR: 11 Reply 7, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 7382 times:
Quoting Zkpilot (Reply 6): always thought that was pretty much the coolest callsign out there.
Totally Agree
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Nudelhirsch From Germany, joined exactly 5 years ago today! , 1437 posts, RR: 19 Reply 12, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 12 hours ago) and read 7256 times:
AFAIK those callsigns were made to better differentiate over the radio.
Now, there is not too much overlapping, but Springbok and Shamrock can sure sound very similar on radio...
Do they serve the same airports at all? Probably LHR, maybe 1 or 2 American airports...
DBA (German British Airways) has been Speedway in comparison to speedbird.
Cool thing IMO. Anyway I don't know if they're still carrying this title cause there ain't no real German BA anymore.
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Mir From United States, joined Jan 2004, 10585 posts, RR: 58 Reply 15, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 7165 times:
Quoting Nudelhirsch (Reply 12): Now, there is not too much overlapping, but Springbok and Shamrock can sure sound very similar on radio...
I was spotting at JFK once and thought I heard "Shamrock" coming in. It turned out to be "Air Maroc".
Shamrock 111 and Air India 111 used to arrive at the same time at JFK, sometimes one would be following the other. The flights still arrive at the same times, but they're not both numbered 111 anymore (I think Aer Lingus uses Shamrock 11C as the radio callsign).
-Mir
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Deltamike172 From United States, joined Mar 2001, 67 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 7140 times:
"Clipper" shouldn't be referred to in passed tense!
Pan Am 3, that charter company that flies into Pease, NH and Gary, IN and those weird places with 727s uses that callsign. The Callsign is PAAxxxx and they are called clipper on the radio.
Something that always confuses me is when people refer to these airlines with two letter identifiers. The only identifiers I know are the 3 letter ATC callsigns. That ATpub link will have all the informtion you'd ever need. There are some cute ones out there...
Two letter airline callsigns are confusing real life callsigns such as TNxxxxx and LNxxxxx (Tango November is part 135 air taxi for hire, Lifeguard November is any aircraft that needs priorety handeling for medical reasons). If I could wish for one thing on this forum, it would be the use of real ATC callsigns instead of the 2 letter ones. UAL instead of UA, FFT instead of F9, SWA instead of WN, etc. Well, i could think of some other things one could get rid of, but the entertainment value would go WAY down!
Starlionblue From Greenland, joined Feb 2004, 12737 posts, RR: 57 Reply 18, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week ago) and read 7128 times:
Quoting Deltamike172 (Reply 17): If I could wish for one thing on this forum, it would be the use of real ATC callsigns instead of the 2 letter ones. UAL instead of UA, FFT instead of F9, SWA instead of WN, etc. Well, i could think of some other things one could get rid of, but the entertainment value would go WAY down!
Well, two letter are just as real, but are IATA, not ICAO
Quoting IFEMaster (Reply 16): Quoting Zkpilot (Reply 6):
British Airways is Speedbird
I always thought that was pretty much the coolest callsign out there.
Funny, I always thought it was one of the cheesiest/lamest.
Love it. For the record it's inspired by the BOAC logo.
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Zkpilot From New Zealand, joined Mar 2006, 2764 posts, RR: 5 Reply 22, posted (2 years 6 months 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 6961 times:
slightly off topic but I remembered this joke that used BA's callsign "speedbird"
"The German controllers at Frankfurt Airport were a short-tempered lot.
They not only expected you to know your parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (PanAm 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground and a British Airways 747 (radio call Speedbird 206) after landing.
Speedbird 206: "Good morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active."
Ground: "Guten morgan, taxi to your gate."
The British Airways 747 pulls onto the main taxiway and stops.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, ground, I'm looking up the gate location
now."
Ground (with typical German impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you never flown to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, in 1944. But I didn't stop.""Â
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