I have a question for pilots

I have a question for pilots about how you say your callsign when talking to ATC? Do you say N930IF or 930IF but without the N?

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Not a pilot, but I believe it would be November 9 3 0 India Foxtrot.

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Helicopter 129 November Bravo

Cessna 267 Bravo Gulf

Douglas Delta 3 Charlie

Beaver 3 5 Lima

OR If you have an actual call sign you can hear

CAP5051

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Slight correction. 9er

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In canada on initial check in youd have the check in with type and full registration. After that atc/pilots usually use the last 3 of the registration (as long as its a civil ident, commercial airliners use full callsign)

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This always confused me, how come they say 9er? Did it just kind of integrate into “Pilot speak”?

It’s radio Etiquette

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I believe it would be November 9er 3 0 Indigo Foxtrot on initial call, but just 0 Indigo Foxtrot on other radio calls. At least that’s what I learned from my first flight lesson last week

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  1. 1st check in with atc - 930 INDIA FOXTROT
  2. Comms with the same atc personal 0 INDIA FOXTROT

Checking with a new segment repeat 1.

I am not one of those who say 9er or 3- tree. Never was really trained that way and have yet to be corrected. But absolutely nothing wrong in saying that.

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MaxAsks @RotorGuy

Pray tell me my rotor head friend when did “Like” slip into the phonetic alphabet vice “Lima”, like, “Beaver 3 5 Lima Lima”? LOL
Regards, Max

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I have no idea why I typed like… Probably since I’m doing an after action report from a drill we did yesterday and had write things we liked and didn’t like… Facepalm

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@RotorGuy… “Who lov’s ya Baby” “Warm Regards”. Max

Say “nine.” Now say “five.” Now imagine hearing each of those garbled through a radio. It’s to make sure pilots and ATC can hear the difference.

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They say 9er because that is the aviation phonetic for 9. Saying 9er eliminates confusion with other letters or numbers.

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@NathanD … Google is your friends…
Regards, Max

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Callsigns > Tail numbers 😜

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Yeah, yesterday over CO I heard Happy 5. Clearly military, but we never get cool names like that.

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@Thunder same here. Anyway, when you first check in with ATC, you use the entire callsign. After that, you can abbreviate it.

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A friend of mine has a callsign for his 152 It’s Harambe 1 he has the paper work to prove it also

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