[MilCom] Altantic Southeast Airlines

[Mike Riffle]

Coincidentally, there was an ASA aircraft discussing the callsign change
with Atlanta Center last night. The ASA pilot said the company initially
used the ACEY callsign 25 years ago until they discovered there was a Guard
unit using the same callsign. The Guard unit won callsign battle and ASA
started using CANDLER. The ASA pilot said that Guard unit (anybody know who
it was?) no longer exists so they have started using the ACEY callsign
again. The controller remembered when they used the ACEY callsign, stating
it used to be listed as ACE.

Mike Riffle
Cataula, GA

On 15-Mar-06 14:24, ColoradoRedlands at aol.com wrote:
> Of Interest or not.
>  
> During a discussion with ATC today, an Atlantic Southeast Airline CRJ7 said  
> their new radio callsign ACEY (ACY) was official as of today (14  Mar). 
>  
> The pilot said yesterday they were CANDLER (CAA), and today they are all  
> ACEY (ACY).  She also said the former name CANDLER was derived from the  name of 
> Candler Field in Atlanta, GA.  ACEY is supposed to sound like an  abbreviation 
> for Atlantic Southeast, A-SE.