Originally Posted by Ranger (Post 252658)

Quite a few years ago I was working a week of NRT-PEK-NRT night flights. I think we did four of them. I can't remember the exact trip number but it was something like 86P. Every night we worked the inbound back to NRT 86R would also show up on one of the freqs that Tokyo was using. And one night we had 86P, 86R and 86S all on the same freq at the same time. One crew (not us, thank God) had a tough time figuring out who the controllers were talking to. The captain I was working with wrote a safety report on it. It was obviously a very effective safety report.

Originally Posted by Albief15 (Post 252612)

I sometimes fly flt 357 to (I think) FSD. My proposal is for us to start using callsigns for flights. For instance:

Us: "Memphis Center, FDX 357 passing 16,000 for 230. We need you to refer to us for the rest of the trip now as MAGNUM"

Center: "huh?"

Us: "Yeah....we ain't gonna answer anything but "MAGNUM" for the next 80 minutes, so pass it on down the sectors, okay?"

I can assure you'd we'd never miss a MANGNUM call.

The fun part would be naming each flight.... some ideas:

1818= "legal/legal"

1478 (TLH) = "seminole" or (poor taste I know) "bushwacker"

You get the idea. Have some fun naming your favorite trips. I'm sure we'd have some GREAT trips going into the Orient with some pretty cool names like "happy ending" and "long time".

Remember--its all about SAFETY, legality, and reliability....oh...and pride.

Originally Posted by FLMD11CAPT (Post 252812)

SFS = dogpile
PEK = asthma
DEL = montezuma
BOM = leper