Multi-Engine/Rotorhead callsigns and nicknames

[Tuna]

I was watching jet-stream the other day online, and saw the episode in which the new pilots got their callsigns (i.e last name coffin got the call sign nail'n ha ha ha) however I am unsure whether or not rotorhead pilots and multi-engine pilots get similar callsigns as well? do ACSO's and flight engineers/ other operators get them as well?

after the questions are answered can any pilots/other personnel share their call signs/nicknames and why they got them?

(I have only ever met one Canadian military pilot, his last name was Pye, call sign: pieman)

 

[aesop081]

Callsigns are gay.................

 

[medicineman]

Callsigns are gay.................

:trainwreck:

 

[Towards_the_gap]

I'll throw some fuel on that fire Cdn_Aviator, and say:


Callsigns/nicknames are only cool when your job brings you in line of sight of M. Taliban, and said job entails you placing copper-jacketed pieces of HM's best medicine in his centre of mass.

*watch and shoot, watch and shoot*

P.S. I am just kidding, I have all the time in the world for the rotary wing fellas.

 

[Tuna]

this is probably my fastest growing post so far, but my question has not been answered yet

 

[dimsum]

ACSOs don't usually get call-signs (don't know if that's the case with the EW folks.) 

 

[aesop081]

Nobody i've even flown with in LRP has a "callsign". The occasional nickname sure, but no callsigns.

(don't know if that's the case with the EW folks.) 

The one that i met did.

 

[Tuna]

and the multi engine/helis?

 

[aesop081]

and the multi engine

LRP is multi-engine. CP-140 Auroras. I can't speak for other multi-engine platforms.

 

[medicineman]

I don't seem to remember anyone on any Scare Air flights I took as cargo or as back end crew having a handle...at least on their name tags.

MM

 

[Zoomie]

Unlike the fighter folks - who get their callsign given to them (whether they like it or not) - the rest of the RCAF aircrew may very well progress through their successful careers without ever being exposed to a callsign.

Some times a nick-name (or call-sign in other parlance) may stick with one individual from time to time.  Usually they make sense (unlike most fighter callsigns) and are more sensible/have more meaning.

 

[Loachman]

Tac Hel callsigns are one or two digits possibly followed by a letter, as per ACP 125 CANSUPP 1B. If we're on somebody else's net, the callsigns are prefixed by "Hotel" or "Juliet". US practice was followed in KAF - Griffons were "Shakedown" plus a two-digit number, and Chinooks were "Blowtorch" plus a two-digit number.

For personal identification on means other than radios, we have real person names like other adults.

 

[Good2Golf]

Only guys who oil up and play volleyball shirtless, stopping play often to pose in front of other oiled-up men, have call signs...






...others comply with fixed or unit callsigns (per the GPH-204A Flight Planning and Procedures publication or local approved procedures) or when travelling internationally, CANFORCE plus an assigned (per 1 CAD Orders) 4-digit number.

 

[medicineman]

Only guys who oil up and play volleyball shirtless, stopping play often to pose in front of other oiled-up men, have call signs...

...that often start with "H" and end with "O"

MM

 

[SupersonicMax]

...that often start with "H" and end with "O"

MM

Are you talking about your callsign???


So much jealousy in this thread...  Too bad we're the ones going to war, taking names and dropping bombs

 

[Journeyman]

this is probably my fastest growing post so far, but my question has not been answered yet

25 minutes after you make an arguably Radio Chatter post, you expect the entire world to down tools and post a response. 

I can see how some "call signs" may evolve.  :

 

[GAP]

...that often start with "H" and end with "O"

MM

oh....hero...... op:

 

[MJP]

So much jealousy in this thread...  Too bad we're the ones going to war, taking names and dropping bombs

Welcome to the fight...Only a few (or 10) years  behind everyone else

But a welcome addition, I am sure to the folks getting the support. 

 

[dapaterson]

Too bad we're the ones going to war, taking names and dropping bombs

Actually, it was the sensor platforms on aircraft like the Auroras that were going to war and taking names.  Then they'd steer the bomb trucks into location, tens of thousands of feet in the air, and point them at the names the Auroras had already taken.


..of course, in the Army, it's a Corporal who drives the trucks...

 

[SupersonicMax]

Actually, it was the sensor platforms on aircraft like the Auroras that were going to war and taking names.  Then they'd steer the bomb trucks into location, tens of thousands of feet in the air, and point them at the names the Auroras had already taken.

Not quite, but nice try!