Originally Posted by
bgmann
Until Compass says "Compass Rose", Horizon says "Horizon Air", Frontier says "Frontier Flight", and Spirit says "Spirit Wings", and Caribbean says "Caribbean Airlines"....."Eagle Flight" will be "Eagle". Because those are the official ARTCC callsigns for those airlines and they dont say them verbatim.
We get in trouble for not saying Eagle Flight. Garbage...!
I was in NYC doing the flyby for the US Open Tennis tourney last month. Needless to say, we don't fly in that airspace very often. Well, we launched out of EWR to hold east of LGA until it was time to make the run. Our callsign was Eagle 11. It took me a few minutes to realize that we were not the only guys flying in the area with the Eagle callsign! Full callsigns were important that day (at least for me).
Oh, and when we flew into EWR the Friday before the finals, the weather was horrible (rain, low cloud, significant wind and shear), and I had to fly a STAR which included some high altitude holding and (for us) VERY slow flying (<200 kts) as we got within about 20 miles of the field. It gave me a whole new appreciation for the challenges of airline flying in major metro areas. I won't even get into trying to taxi to the FBO!