![]() After sleeping outside in the spilling rain and freezing cold, he woke quite rested. The c/s stuck.Ĭaveman – During CAF survival training, guy enjoyed the worst of weather. Needless to say, there were guts all over the runway and they had to close it for half an hour to clean-up.īeagle – Kept ‘bouncing around’ on landings like an excited beagle puppy.īerlin – Taxied his aircraft into a wall while making a turn.īlaze – Caught on fire in the base kitchenīurbank – New F/A-18 driver shows up at first squadron and says “Hi, I’m Hollywood” Experienced pilots taken aback by Topgun wannabe declare, you’re no Hollywood, more like Burbank. Thus “Apex”, after the Soviet AA-7 missile.īaldy Laughlin 1993: Female student married a classmate who got Vipers (F-16 aka “Lawn Dart”) BALD-D: Bangs A Lawn Dart Driverīambi – This pilot, who is now flying F-15s at Tyndall, hit a pregnant deer with his nosegear while taking off in a T-38 at Columbus. However, he insisted on aggressively shooting at his fellow classmates and screwing up their intercepts. After the first day, everybody just called him Alphabet.Īpex – During F-16 FWIC, this guy was supposed to be a docile Red Air target for his fellow studs trying to pass the intercepts phase. He was an engineer though, not a pilot – hence the fix part…Īlphabet There was a new guy in the squadron by the name of Varsonofy Krestovozdvizhensky. and 2., you’ll get a new nickname you’ll like even less!Īir-Fix – Pretty vain and looked like a model apparently… i.e. If you complain and moan too much about 1. If you don’t already have one, you will be assigned one by your “buddies”.ģ. There are three rules in coming up with a callsign:ġ. It’s for both operational security and identifying the aircraft/pilot. What is a callsign? It’s the name a pilot or crew member is called so they don’t have to use their real name when talking through communications equipment.
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