Best and Worst Call Signs?
05-16-2007 | 10:46 PM
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We have 3 747's at Offutt AFB here in Omaha and they usually have pretty cool call signs but...I was in Lincoln doing a night flight with a student in a C150 and there was an E4 down there doing a checkride.
There call sign was Elma...I gave them a hard time about it and they said it was tactical deception, so I said if they were Elma we were gonna be Sabertooth 150. Tower and approach called us that the rest of the night.
On another x-country fight we heard 3 military birds ...Crusty 11, Crusty 12, and Crusty 13....so I proceeded to do Krusty the clown for the next 3 hours
We have 3 747's at Offutt AFB here in Omaha and they usually have pretty cool call signs but...I was in Lincoln doing a night flight with a student in a C150 and there was an E4 down there doing a checkride.
There call sign was Elma...I gave them a hard time about it and they said it was tactical deception, so I said if they were Elma we were gonna be Sabertooth 150. Tower and approach called us that the rest of the night.
On another x-country fight we heard 3 military birds ...Crusty 11, Crusty 12, and Crusty 13....so I proceeded to do Krusty the clown for the next 3 hours
05-16-2007 | 10:53 PM
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Cactus is America West
We have 3 747's at Offutt AFB here in Omaha and they usually have pretty cool call signs but...I was in Lincoln doing a night flight with a student in a C150 and there was an E4 down there doing a checkride.
There call sign was Elma...I gave them a hard time about it and they said it was tactical deception, so I said if they were Elma we were gonna be Sabertooth 150. Tower and approach called us that the rest of the night.
On another x-country fight we heard 3 military birds ...Crusty 11, Crusty 12, and Crusty 13....so I proceeded to do Krusty the clown for the next 3 hours
We have 3 747's at Offutt AFB here in Omaha and they usually have pretty cool call signs but...I was in Lincoln doing a night flight with a student in a C150 and there was an E4 down there doing a checkride.
There call sign was Elma...I gave them a hard time about it and they said it was tactical deception, so I said if they were Elma we were gonna be Sabertooth 150. Tower and approach called us that the rest of the night.
On another x-country fight we heard 3 military birds ...Crusty 11, Crusty 12, and Crusty 13....so I proceeded to do Krusty the clown for the next 3 hours
I could just picture the other planes on HF that night wondering what on earth would use such a lame call sign 
05-17-2007 | 11:29 AM
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From: Southwest FO
We picked our own callsign one boring night out of Offutt (sp?) AFB. Since we were flying 707s, our callsign ended in "heavy." So, thinking it would be funny, I used SESNA 52 as our callsign. We all thought it was pretty funny until the Wichita controller told us we had to change the callsign- Cessna is proprietary (sp?). Anyway- for about 20 min until we switched, the crew and controllers had a few chuckles when they heard "SESNA 52 Heavy checking in Flight Level 240"
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05-17-2007 | 05:18 PM
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From: C-12
Some of my callsigns:
Vampire__ .... (lame)
Reaper__...(lame?)
Outlaw__
Cats__... (lame) short for "Wildcats"
Snake __
Blue Ridge___
Duke__
PAT___ (lame)
Speedbird and Clipper sound cool...
Waterski and ExecJet sound lame...
Vampire__ .... (lame)
Reaper__...(lame?)
Outlaw__
Cats__... (lame) short for "Wildcats"
Snake __
Blue Ridge___
Duke__
PAT___ (lame)
Speedbird and Clipper sound cool...
Waterski and ExecJet sound lame...
05-17-2007 | 06:29 PM
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My vote for the best!!!. Had a few good ones for OEF. Mountain__ Everest___ Rapture___ Sneaky___ They tried to give us Velvet one night. That's when I knew some ******* fighter guy was laughing at the CAOC. We called and had it changed. I thought it was funny though. At our reserve unit we are Scalp___..the screaming Indians. Not very PC thank god.
05-17-2007 | 08:16 PM
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"Nitro" (TNT) makes me smile. "Tiger" (FTL) and "Express" (old FDX) were a couple of my all time favorites.
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