[MilCom] scannists being hassled

[Mike Riffle]

On 16-Feb-06 03:18, Duane Mantick wrote:
> OK - scanner tip time.  If you happen to be listening for an
> AirTran Airways flight and expect the radio call to be "AirTran 
> <flight number>" sorry; unlike other airlines who might say
> "United 477" or whatever the radio call for AirTran is "Citrus
> <flight number>".

Back when AirTran was called ValuJet, they used the callsign "Critter".
May have had something to due with that cartoonish aircraft they had
painted on the fuselage:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0651468/M/

Mike Riffle
Cataula, GA