Personal Callsigns

[jetav8r]

Anyone get a nickname/callsign during their aviation career from beginning to end that stuck.

What was it?
How did you get it?

Have fun

Jet

[rooster]

Anyone get a nickname/callsign during their aviation career from beginning to end that stuck.

What was it?
How did you get it?

Have fun

Jet

I don't think you're going to have much success with this thread as people who wish to remain anonymous on this forum will clearly reveal themselves if they post nicknames.

But, you never know...

[Brown Bear]

Anyone get a nickname/callsign during their aviation career from beginning to end that stuck.

What was it?
How did you get it?

Have fun

Jet

I don't think you're going to have much success with this thread as people who wish to remain anonymous on this forum will clearly reveal themselves if they post nicknames.

But, you never know...

I'll bet he would have caught one or two had you not warned the brain dead masses of the obvious....

[Nark]

Tackleberry.


Some of us don't really care about anonymity.

[rooster]

Tackleberry.


Some of us don't really care about anonymity.

But many do...

[JohnnyHotRocks]

I knew a guy called "dirty knees"....don't know how he got the call sign, be he is now a 777 captain at air canada...

[peakbagger]

I know a guy named "Chip tits"

He ate one too many bags of old dutch on those 7 hour surprise holds up north.

[Hedley]

My father (ex F-104 driver) hung the nickname "Captain Chaos"
on me, and even had it put on the side of the Pitts I flew:



Many of you are probably too young to remember the movie
"Cannonball Run", but it had a marvellous scene landing a Maule
in the downtown of a small southern town when they ran out
of beer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DzWNmCXmEg

Note that old B.D. Maule's name was on the side of that
airplane

Most people don't realize that nicknames are NOT chosen
by you - they are a nasty practical joke that your seniors
play on you. Needless to say, I ditched "Capt Chaos" as
soon as I could. I always thought Dom DeLuise was gay,
but it turns out he had a bunch of kids. Go figure.

My 17 year old kid, I naturally hung the nickname "The Kid"
on him - I even put it on the side of his Pitts, without him
knowing anything about it. He is "the kid", which reminds me
somewhat of that marvellous Arlo Guthrie song, "Alice's Restaurant".

I am one of the most modest airshow pilots you will ever
meet. Stop laughing. Rather than put my name of the side
of the Pitts that I fly - which every other airshow pilot in
the world does - I am humble enough to put the airplane's
name on the side of it:

http://www.pittspecials.com/images/eric.jpg

"Pale Horse" - you can figure out what that means, all by
yourself. Note that I wasn't flying it in the above picture,
the kid was - he was ferrying it to and from an airshow
for me because I had to fly other airplanes there.

Notice that he remembered to move the microphone away
from his face before he closed in for the hero picture from
the lead aircraft photographer. I've been flying for over 35
years, and that would have never occurred to me, to do.

My father, at 78 years old is the senior pilot, and he can
put anything he goddamned well wants on the side of
his Pitts - even Transport can't tell him not to. So, he
put "Uncle Tim", which is incredibly confusing. His name
is Tim (really Philip, which is even more confusing), but
"Uncle Tim" doesn't refer to him, it refers to his uncle Tim,
who tangled unsuccessfully piloting a two-seater in World
War One with Baron Von Richthofen.

The offical RCAF history actually has it backwards - they
have my grandfather, John Boyd, being shot down by
Richthofen, instead of my great-uncle Tim (Philip), but I
am living proof otherwise. I can't help but suspect that
Transport frequently wishes history had actually transpired
in that manner.

I guess I don't exactly remain very anonymous here -
how many people in Canada fly airshows in Pitts and
L39's? - but I'm afraid I really don't care.

[2R]

That picture has red green and duct tape so it would be obvious what your callsign should be:
Thats right: RED GREEN
Grow a beard and make it official

[skywardbound]

I know a guy named "Chip tits"

He ate one too many bags of old dutch on those 7 hour surprise holds up north.

LMAO

[Hedley]

RED GREEN

I know a guy with shoes like that

Don't be dissin' duct tape - that's our national adhesive!

PS I tried to grow a mustache once but it didn't work out - it
was mostly just long nose hairs. I think I'll stick with the clean-
shaven look.

[hairdo]

Got it from my first instructor. When I started training, I had perfectly combed over hair... so he bestowed the 'honour' of "Hairdo" on me. It's not widely know by those who know me, but those who do know, haven't forgot so far.

[. ._]

edited- OOPS! this isn't the misc. forum

[Rowdy]

Heya Hedley, I like the american N number. Fantastic!



I also think I know where the name comes from.... correct me if I'm wrong but The Pale Horse is mentioned in Revelation 6:8, where it is ridden by Death?!?!?

[Hedley]

That particular airplane was previously involved in a fatal accident for the occupants
(not me) and afterwards it's registration was changed to what it is now (not by me)
presumably to reflect that.

I don't know if you guys have ever heard of Richard Bach, but decades ago he wrote
about the process of purchasing airplanes. He knows a little about this subject. His
opinion was that you didn't seek out and find your next airplane, it sought you out
and hunted you down, and that's pretty much what happened with this Pitts.

It tried to kill me the first time I flew it, in Alabama. A BNC T-connector in the tail
neatly jammed the stick in a vertical downline, requiring my first landing in it to be
controlled with the trim, which most pilots find a bit tricky. Last time Sean Tucker
had a problem with controlling the elevator in a Pitts he elected to step over the side.

It's my favourite S-2B, honestly. I will happily tailslide it and recover from an inverted
spin in it, below 1000 AGL.

Dunno if anyone here rides horses, but some places will have a wrangy stallion that
scares everyone shitless, and it never gets ridden. I like horses like that. They're
interesting.

[El Comat]

At Air Crew Selection for the Air Force I was given the name 'Baby Face'. Of course, the Air Force shut down the pilot hiring (CEOTP anyway) just after I had passed everything (2004), so I never got to paint it on my F-18 .

EC

[MrWings]

So, Hedley is Eric Tillman?

[Rudder Bug]

Yours truly, Captain Gilley Bean.

[cgzro]

"Hyphen-Boy"

Fortunatley nobody uses it much .. and please don't start.

To make a long story short I was at my 1st or second aerobatic contest. Now in the US, contests have a fairly good turnout 40+ planes and perhaps 50-60 pilots and getting every pilot 3 x 15 minute flights over 3 days with weather issues is challanging. As a result the best contests are run like clockwork with 2-3 acro birds in a hold while one is in the box and another is taking off. In this manner a continuous stream of planes can be fed into the box and judged. Keeping this all going is the chief judge and the starter. The starter hurries you into the plane gets you launched etc. and the chief judge grabs the planes out of the hold into the box etc. as quickly as possible. Its impressive to see at some contests how well this pipelines of expensive toys can be managed.

So along comes me .. fresh Pitts driver and fancying himself as ice-man or some other cool monicker. Strapping into the pitts for my contest flight the last thing I do is reach for my keys and prompty drop them into the belly of the plane. Now a double harness and parachute means that getting the keys requires a lot of unbuckling restrapping etc. Just enough time for the hold to empty and the air to go 'dead' .. now dead air at an acro contest is really really bad. Anyway as soon as I took off, our grumpy old contest directory nick names my 'hyphen-boy ' along with a few choice words about expediting my rear end into the box .. needless to say was not the best performance .. but hey as folks said these things come from embarrassing moments


Peter Ashwood"Hyphen"Smith

[Rowdy]

I've always been rowdy.. my parents called me that from a very young age and it seems to follow me.

However.. I was dubbed swimmer after a couple of spills off the floats and docks, usually trying to keep a passenger from going in the drink, but occasionally from my own misgivings. Thankfully it hasnt happened on the coast.. yet.