[ACARS] Alphanumeric Callsigns

[Andreas Schmidt]

Hello,

just read in http://www.dus-forum.de (translated from german):

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In the last 15 minutes around 7 lh-aircraft landed at DUS using 
strange flight-numbers.

Instead of "Lufthansa" and flight number they used (on the radio):

Lufthansa 14 Zulu
Lufthansa 70 Zulu
Lufthansa 4 Tango
Lufthsnsa 7 Zulu Delta
Lufthansa 9 X-Ray Hotel
and so on.

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Same was heard with BA according to another message in the 
forum.

It seems, that BA and LH start using alphanumeric callsigns on radio 
and on ACARS (message from Hans). They do not match the flight 
number. Maybe this is, what they want? They can't encrypt this part 
of an ACARS-message and on the radio, so they use callsigns with 
much more phantasy? Just guessing...

Best regards, Andreas


Andreas Schmidt
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