how pilots get their callsigns

[clockworkjoe]

http://www.f-16.net/callsigns.html

Stink Finger
 (added: 14 Mar 2010)
    New pilot fresh from the Air Force Academy was always pulling on his flight suit from the back. So he got the name stink finger.

Warbird
 (added: 14 Mar 2010)
    Last name is Warmoth. Naming party came down to War Moth or Warbird. Two fifths of Jack got me Warbird, much better than War Moth.

Cider
 (added: 12 Mar 2010)
    Last name Cummens

TCAP
 (added: 12 Mar 2010)
    Named after the TV show Dateline NBC - To catch a predator. While in flight school, this stud dated a 17 year old townie... knowingly... because "she was going to be 18 soon". Found out her dad was a retired Hornet driver, which means he probably knew all the instructors, or at least enough to make flight school less enjoyable, so he "creeped her out into dumping him, you know so she wouldn't be so attached"

Neutron
 (added: 12 Mar 2010)
    i was trying to look nice for the girls, and i came out with hair looking like "Jimmy Newtron" the sad part is, a girl was the one that called it first.

[The_Last_76]

Cider
 (added: 12 Mar 2010)
    Last name Cummens

Greatest.
Callsign.
Ever.

[Darksaw]

P.E.

Premature Ejection - Pressed the ejection switch in an aircraft while still on the runway.

This is one of the best things.

[Salkovich]

"Cooper  (added: 4 Aug 2010)
Carpet Pooper. He pooped on a carpet."


Man, F-16 pilots are weird.

[Tadanori Oyama]

"Cooper  (added: 4 Aug 2010)
Carpet Pooper. He pooped on a carpet."

Man, F-16 pilots are weird.

That individual is flying a device costing an adjusted 19 million dollars.

[iceemaker]

See, the "old" me would have been severely perturbed by that statistic. I would have been all like, "Oh God, why are we letting people like that fly $19 million planes. Wait, WHY DO WE HAVE $19 MILLION JETS IN THE FIRST PLACE!?!?!" But not the new me. The new me finds this absolutely hilarious. I think.

I mean, the Marines let my little brother fly a scout drone. And everybody knows how terribly destructive little brothers are.

[The_Last_76]

That individual is flying a device costing an adjusted 19 million dollars.

[Dom]

That individual is flying a device costing an adjusted 19 million dollars.

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[nekomata]

It was my lifelong goal to be a fighter pilot, but my vision sucks ass. God laughs at me every chance he gets. Still though, F-14 = best jet ever built. It's too awesome to be kept in service, makes everyone else look bad. Not to mention that it weighs more then an E-2, and costs a fortune.