[MilCom] Looking for some input

[Greg Brazil]

Paddles is the Landing Signal Officer's callsign on aircraft carrier. 
On the aircraft carrier the frequency the aircraft talks to Paddles is 
called Land/Launch.  I've copied Paddles using GCA frequencies for years 
while practicing carrier landings (FLCP, I think for field landing 
carrier practice - this is coming from a P-3 guy)on the beach.
Greg (SF Bay Area)

Jeff wrote:

> Patuxent River NAS has 387.9 in use pretty often. I am currently listening
> to a recording of Aircraft 84-MIKE doing low approaches with the Tower
> coordinating. They keep switching from "LOW" Approaches to "PADDLES"
> approaches. Then the aircraft will go back outbound and the Tower will tell
> him to "Report the hook, inbound". Every once in a while I will actually
> here "PADDLES" come up on the radio and advise how many "Paddles Approaches"
> the aircraft has done thus far. 
> 
> Anyway, for my query, what would be a good way to name a freq like this. It
> is not exactly a GCA freq, because of the PADDLES involvement. It is
> definitely not a standard APPROACH freq. Would it be appropriate to name a
> freq like this "PADDLES", I am hesitant as "PADDLES" probably only used the
> freq a fraction of the time, even though PADDLES was obviously involved. I
> can't say I remember seeing a freq from any other source called "PADDLES",
> so I figured I would solicit for some input before jumping the gun on a good
> attempt at an ID.
> 
> Any thoughts on the matter would be helpful. 
> 
> Jeff
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