Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 14259 times:
Quoting Visityyj (Reply 2): Recent delivery flight was using "Redwood". As in big California trees !
Huh huh, you said "wood".
Getting my mind out of the gutter for a minute, if "Redwood" is in fact going to be the call sign for VX, it does makes sense in regards to the tree, but also since Virgin-branded airlines have a touch of red in the branding and livery, it goes along with that as well. It's definitely a unique call sign since plant names aren't typically used as a callsign, it's animals that get used most often when a living thing is used as a call sign.
National757 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 717 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 14258 times:
Quoting Visityyj (Reply 2): Recent delivery flight was using "Redwood". As in big California trees !
Makes sense as they are based in Northern California. I like it as it sounds a little like N7's Redrock.
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VS11 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 978 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 14168 times:
The Wikipedia article is not very accurate, it seems to me. They list Virgin Blue's callsign as Virgin, which could be possible as it is based in Australia but since Virgin Atlantic now flies in Australia, how are they going to distinguish which airline is being called if the callsign for both Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Blue is Virgin. If indeed, the callsign for Virgin Blue is Virgin, then why would not Virgin be used for Virgin America? Arguably, as Virgin Atlantic has more flights in the US than in Australia, the potential for confusion is much bigger.
Njgtr82 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 121 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 14069 times:
Elcableguy77 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 523 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 13752 times:
It's also interesting to note Shuttle America's callsign change from Shuttlecraft to Crossroads, which makes sense, as they are based in Indianapolis, also known as the crossroads of the US.
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Falcon flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 1293 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 13650 times:
Quoting Elcableguy77 (Reply 10): It's also interesting to note Shuttle America's callsign change from Shuttlecraft to Crossroads, which makes sense, as they are based in Indianapolis, also known as the crossroads of the US.
Will the ICAO TCF designator remain or will it change ?
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Uncgso From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 330 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 13566 times:
Quoting Elcableguy77 (Reply 10): It's also interesting to note Shuttle America's callsign change from Shuttlecraft to Crossroads,
I thought i read somewhere that S5 was now Mercury??
UN_B732 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 4286 posts, RR: 5 Reply 13, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 13525 times:
Yeah, I guess there was a rumor going around it was going to be crossroads but it was too confusing with crosswinds, crossair, etc. etc., so they settled on Mercury.
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Elcableguy77 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 523 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13461 times:
Quoting Falcon flyer (Reply 11): Will the ICAO TCF designator remain or will it change ?
According to the attached document, they'll retain their TCF code.
Quoting UN_B732 (Reply 13): Yeah, I guess there was a rumor going around it was going to be crossroads but it was too confusing with crosswinds, crossair, etc. etc., so they settled on Mercury.
-A
Well, the above document comes from the FAA, and it says Crossroads, so I'll go with that for now.
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Drewwright From United States of America, joined May 2001, 621 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13410 times:
'Crossroads' lasted only a couple of days and was rescinded by the FAA. The official callsign is 'Mercury.' Crossroads was better, but it supposedly sounded too much like, "Cross the active runway," or so said the FAA.
Njgtr82 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 121 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13354 times:
Quoting Drewwright (Reply 15): 'Crossroads' lasted only a couple of days and was rescinded by the FAA. The official callsign is 'Mercury.' Crossroads was better, but it supposedly sounded too much like, "Cross the active runway," or so said the FAA.
Slider From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6518 posts, RR: 37 Reply 17, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13349 times:
I think V America should be "Slick" like Grace Slick....
Osiris30 From Barbados, joined Sep 2006, 3182 posts, RR: 26 Reply 19, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 13149 times:
Quoting Visityyj (Reply 2): Recent delivery flight was using "Redwood". As in big California trees !
As in what you have after being with... oh n/m if you can't figure it out... sigh....
Everything 'Virgin' is VERY tongue-in-cheek and innocent at first glance...
[edit notice] PS: I've tried to be as gentle as possible with the above statements, and I apologize if they offended anyone, but really.. it had to be pointed out [/edit notice]
[Edited 2007-07-19 06:07:00]
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Elcableguy77 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 523 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 13100 times:
Quoting Osiris30 (Reply 19): Quoting Visityyj (Reply 2):
Recent delivery flight was using "Redwood". As in big California trees !
As in what you have after being with... oh n/m if you can't figure it out... sigh....
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DeltaAVL From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 1893 posts, RR: 7 Reply 21, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 13100 times:
Quoting UN_B732 (Reply 13): Yeah, I guess there was a rumor going around it was going to be crossroads but it was too confusing with crosswinds, crossair, etc. etc., so they settled on Mercury.
I like it, but isn't the word "Mercury" a bit hard to say for a callsign?
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SirOmega From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 735 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 12822 times:
Redwood, nice double entendre there. Did anyone know that Virgin America is having a contest for this online tech news website called digg (www.digg.com). I'm sure that the folks at the airline call it a virgin for virgins.
DeltaAVL From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 1893 posts, RR: 7 Reply 24, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 12749 times:
Quoting AA787823 (Reply 22): ....How bout using call sign.."hymen"?????
Oh yeah, that's a good one.
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25 Acey: Ahh, yes, great suggestion. The lady pilots would have a great time with that one. I suppose "redwood" can have its connotations, too.
26 QFA380: The VS flights and the DJ flights have different numbers. I think there only the one flight to SYD a day that VS does, VS7221/VS7222 and DJ doesn't h
27 PlaneMad: VS only have that one flight a day to SYD. The VS 200/201. Apart from that, all the "Virgin" callsigns will be from DJ Sam
28 Honza: According to ICAO database not yet assigned... http://www.eurocontrol.int/icaoref/i...8585_aircraft_operators_browse.jsp
29 STJ: I can think of one - America West (US Airways) is "Cactus"
30 Corsair1107: Any idea if they are going to keep Cactus when US East and West merge their certificates? They should.
31 Itsnotfinals: Cactus is the remaining Call sign once the operating certificates are merged.
32 Citation750x: How about "American Virgin". That would be a good one for ATC to laugh about.
33 Confuscius: "Cherry" would be an nice callsign. It's red, as long as it's not popped, is perfect.
34 Acey: It's too long, and would still get mixed up with "Virigin" for VS. Those jokes are going to get old pretty quick.
35 STLGph: I heart that. I heart that, too. I heart that the best.
38 Visityyj: If there's any wood left after, you ain't doin' it right.
39 Acey: I would think a pilot is more likely to butcher the word "shuttlecraft" as opposed to "mercury". Still easier yet than "continental", which kind of r
40 Osiris30: Well I was going to go back and edit that to read 'during' but... well I figured it got the point across
41 AirframeAS: I'm know this will get deleted so I'm taking the risk: How about "Foreign"
42 N908AW: Or Cheers...or some other stereotypical British word.
43 Acey: I actually like "redwood". Kudos to them for picking something at least slightly interesting. They got their favourite colour in there, as well as mak
44 Boston92: It is. I was a little confused at ORD yesterday beacuse I have never heard that before, so when I heard Mercury, I was a bit dazzled when I saw a Uni
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