Originally Posted by
Wasatch Phantom
Well, I guess I'm a tool as I've used the term.
It's part of the "Brevity code". It essentially means flying in reduced visibility or in and out of clouds.
Thus suppose ATC calls out traffic and you have the aircraft in sight but you know you'll lose the aircraft momentarily when you re enter the clouds.
I would guess you didn't fly in the military...
Yes, I DID fly in the military and have never ever used the term "Popeye" or the term "angels" or the term "Tally" or the term "Bingo fuel" or "parrot" during a full airline career. Speaking of tools on the radio, had a copilot respond to to a freq. change of 130.230 as 130.Michael Jordan. I kid you not.
Radio chatter can expose a "tool" about as quick as anything in a cockpit, except for the following.
And there is one captain who flies at my current airline who, I have been told, not only takes his shoes off, takes his socks off, but..........clips his toenails.