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Old 10-16-2015, 09:21 AM
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Personally I would go with the fewest number of syllables to speak. Cuts down on the time spent on call signs.

There is an airplane that commonly does practice approaches around Youngstown that has a tail number ending in "Zero-Three-Zero." I think the contollers like to mess with the pilots of that one because they're always vectoring them on headings of 030 or similar. It makes for some funny back-and-forth on occasion.
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Old 10-16-2015, 09:22 AM
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So, ..... let me get this straight.......

................Your name is John Walker,... and you drink BOURBON?

So do I, BTW, but I couldn't resist...............
Yeah...I get that all the time... I go by Johnnie Walker yet I don't drink Scotch... I've tried the best, just can't do it. Good bourbon all the way.
The other little ditty of Irony, I grew up in a small town in Va named Kilmarnock. There's two Kilmarnocks on the planet, mine and the one in Scotland.... which is where Johnnie Walker Scotch is made!! Weird right? Not my parents planning, just family names that happen to come together....
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Old 10-16-2015, 09:25 AM
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When I switched countries and N became G, I had to pick a new callsign.
So I went for one with appropriate visual impact and a snappy 'Victor-Victor' callsign:
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Old 10-16-2015, 10:22 AM
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Yeah...I get that all the time... I go by Johnnie Walker yet I don't drink Scotch... I've tried the best, just can't do it. Good bourbon all the way.
The other little ditty of Irony, I grew up in a small town in Va named Kilmarnock. There's two Kilmarnocks on the planet, mine and the one in Scotland.... which is where Johnnie Walker Scotch is made!! Weird right? Not my parents planning, just family names that happen to come together....
His name is Johnnie Walker, his Forum ID is Blue Label, and he doesn't drink scotch...
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Old 10-16-2015, 08:41 PM
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Old 10-16-2015, 09:12 PM
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I have been taking lessons out of BOI and the Archer I am flying has just one letter at the end - J. My choice before I started flying at a towered airport was 319RD. After all the communication I have to do just to move from the hangar, I figured one letter was the easiest. Then I tried all the letters and figured Echo was the easiest and quickest to say so now I am 376E.
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Old 10-17-2015, 06:56 AM
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For lack of imagination I just went with N45678

Controllers seem to do fine with it
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Two friends independently chose to put their wedding anniversary (year/month) on the tail:
immediate benefits are nice, but outweighed by that reminder every time they (and their wives!) see the plane

(Yes, I have forgotten my anniversary...)
OK... but what happens if there's a disillusionment and you end up buying out your wife's contract and make her a free agent? If you somehow manage to hang on to the aircraft after negotiations are complete you have a constant reminder of the previous contract. Ugh.
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Old 11-05-2015, 03:04 PM
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Default Decided to have a little fun with my trail number

My first choice was taken so I went with a combination of my birthday, model number, and my initials. I can't wait to hear ATC call for 247BS!

BTW, 24 is the day of the month, not the year.

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Old 11-05-2015, 03:05 PM
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You and I are thinking alike!
Further, I have a plane that is N43TX. So I thought I'd get one that ends in -3TX, that way whatever plane I'm flying it will be "-3TX"
My RV is N168TX. For the biplane I have reserved N68TX.
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