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Call Signs

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:30 pm
by HamSammich
Peter, Keith, et al. Do you permit call signs for defunct airlines?

Although I'll take my first flights in a GA Piper, I have a DHC-8 Q400 in obviously fictitious Pan Am livery and would love to rule the skies as Clipper XXX.

Marshall

Re: Call Signs

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:49 am
by Kevin_atc
Hi Marshall,

Of course! As long as you use the proper 3 letter prefix, it's no problem. We have had Clipper guys flying around before, actually.

Re: Call Signs

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:13 am
by HamSammich
Best news I've had all day, which was lousy. I'm a journalist and the evening was spent on that burning Speedbird, at KLAS.

Three-letter prefix meaning the ICAO code, which was PAA?

Regards,

Marshall

Re: Call Signs

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:55 am
by Keith Smith
Yes, PAA.

Re: Call Signs

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:23 pm
by HamSammich
Keith, hi.

Not sure how well I can redeem the Jet Age airline of my youth in a turboprop twin, but I hope to bend fewer airframes than those old Sky Gods did. Aiming to do my V-ratings in a Comanche and, maybe, the I-exams in the Dash. It's such a nice-flying fake plane.

And turboprops are just weirdly appealing. Dunno why. I think, as a kid, I imprinted on the whistling, warbling, rumble and shriek of Northeast Yellow Bird F27s, riding offshore breezes into Hyannis. Go figure.

Lancair's pressurized t-prop looks awfully sweet. As a CEO, you really need one, eh?

:-)

Best,

Marshall