Jughead

Y'all sure get wound up over not much - I'm guilty of about 90% of these at one time or another (except the seeeee ya! thing).

The next time you hear a tool saying all this, it's probably me.

501D22G

The possessive thing I can get. I picture a pilot wearing a cowboy hat and spurs, and he SHORE IS proud of his airline, so he is going to append the possessive apostrophe S ['s] to the end of the callsign.

Note: This only works if your call is the same as your company name.
Note: Do not overuse the ['s] (sounds like zzzzzz on the radio)

Example 1: "Chicago Center, Americanzzzzzz 123 checkin in with you three six oh descending two four oh."

Annoying, yet slightly acceptable.

Example 2: Airline name is Monkey Pilot Air, callsign PooSlinger.

"LA Centerzzzzzzz PooSlingerzzzzzz 123zzzzz 14,000 descending 8,000."

Translation: LA Center, it's PooSlinger's 123, is 14 descending 8.

Terrible. Grammatically terrible. 1) Use of 's short for [it's], then possessive, then short for [is]. And PooSlinger isn't even your company name!

DeadHead

I was thinking the same thing.

crewdawg

3! Glad I'm the only one in my aircraft and I spend most of my flying on UHF freqs.

ERJF15

The DFW tower guy that speaks like he's an auctioneer. Even in normal conversation. Drives me nuts.

RhinoPherret

I hear ya.

Standardization of terms and such is not a bad thing. It just seems inevitable that when folks have a mic to speak into and know others are listening, well, it brings out the inner DJ in all of us. Funny how that works.

I remember many years ago hearing a private jet driver keep replying with okie-dokie to every controller’s command from approach to ground. He would say nothing else in his responses other than okie-dokie. He had a strong southern accent (nothing wrong with that) but combining his accent with non-stop okie-dokie's was like listening to Gomer Pyle on crack. I can still hear those transmissions in my head to this day. LOL

Agreed. The guttural or any type of See Yuh is way over used and just seems lame because it is not that amusing any longer.

I wouldn’t say I am wound up about any of this because much of what I have heard over time still comes back to bring an uncontrolled chuckle occasionally (except for Gomer on crack!!).

DC8DRIVER

Not long after Terminator 2 came out ('91?) there was a Southern Cal controller who would 'terminate" contact with her targets with a "Hasta la vista" to which the proper response was "Baby".

At the time I thought it should have become official ICAO phraseology but I would have drawn the line with the other quote from T2; "No problemo".

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USMCFLYR

I ran across the personification of Jeff Dunham's 'Jose Jalapeno (on a stick)' flying around Laredo, TX one day. It was hard to keep it straight on the radio thinking that this was the guy's ACTUAL voice!

Stetson20

I can't give specific examples, but you know it when you hear it:

Usually, it's an ASA callsign (I'm based in ATL), and the transmission sounds like the (fairly new to 121) pilot is trying extremely hard to sound cool and salty. Ends up muttering/mumbling the readback and trailing off the callsign at the end of the transmission.

I've had a couple conversations with the CA following this type of radio exchange, and we've concluded that the "new kid" is probably a product of this new digital- short attention span- generation.

Anyone else noticed this? Or am I just getting older and grumpier?

Stetson20

RhinoPherret

That one would have done me in!
Surprised a random "on a shteek" did not get transmitted at some point. The tempation was out there from more than one someone(s)and you know I'm right.