Good for you! This Deltuh pilot thinks a succesfull year is one where he only sees ATL twice. You're welcome to have my ration of grits.

Don't worry, we'll take care of your grits. Enjoy your polenta.:rolleyes:

If you've flown greenslips a "few times" already so far... you are gonna LOVE the summer time, unless of course you have vacation.... :eek:

Well, bless your heart!

I remember the transition from AW->US. Fortunately, there wasn't any transition from Cactus to US. I wonder how the East guys and controllers thought of that, having to refer to them as something else.

Funny you should say that. I was following a US flight the day they cutover to "Cactus". The controller was having a hard time, calling them "USAir" a couple times and then correcting himself.

"I'm sorry," he said, "I'm having a little trouble with your new callsign."

"That's OK," the US Captain said, "We don't care what you call us as long as we get what we want."

That is a true story.

Amazing. I referred to the "Cactus->US" as the callsign, for us West pilots. The callsign stayed the same for us, nothing changed, as far as callsigns go. I am always struck by the amount of flights from PHX as a whole to Las Vegas. "Southwest 253 cleared to LAS", then a few seconds later "Cactus 50 cleared to LAS"..it never ends.

For the NWA folks:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/...7f3957aa08.jpg

Yea, but Pachal's (or whatever it's called) is full of win for breakfast!

Nu

Can't be any worse than the 737 we followed out of EWR to CLT one day that called himself "Cat-p*ss" the whole time.