[ACARS] Alphanumeric Callsigns

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:58:23 +0100

Hi All,
	I am lead to believe that Lufthansa have been using the
Alpha-numeric call signs on a trial for a month or so. It is to help =
with
VHF communications as some of the airlines have similar flight numbers =
using
the airwaves at the same time. This has caused problems in the wrong
aircraft acknowledging the controllers commands.

Here in the UK we have had Alpha-numeric call signs on British Airways
Citiexpress flights for some time now and on the shuttle flights =
between
London Heathrow and the major UK cities for a number of years. These =
are
used for ATC only and the flights have the normal format of BA1399 if =
you
are traveller.

Although voice communication flight numbers have changed for Lufthansa,
there are some of the new flight idents being used on ACARS and some of =
the
former format. It seems to depend who programs the box with the flight
number.

Hope this helps

Barry
UK

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam 2672 [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 17 October 2003 11:07
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ACARS] Alphanumeric Callsigns

Hello
What could be the reason for it?
Maybe there has been some failure in filing or distributing the flight=20
plans?

-Sam

>From: Kevin Cleaver <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [ACARS] Alphanumeric Callsigns
>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:51:11 +0100
>
>Smokey Behr wrote:
>
>>Could they be using tail numbers instead of flight numbers? That's
>>what it sounds like.
>>
>>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:41:54 +0200, "Andreas Schmidt"
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In the last 15 minutes around 7 lh-aircraft landed at DUS using =
strange=20
>>>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.
>>
>>
>correction to my previous DLH5950 =3D DLH5MF
>
>
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