[MilCom] Re: [RadioMonitors] 30 MARCH 2006 - KANSAS. . .

[lrk]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:34:22AM -0500, grayghost at cebridge.net wrote:
> 
> Oh AL, you would ask that question :-) 
> Yep & I blew it when he did today cause I was not prepared nor had enough coffee while watching weather channel.
> It is NOT LEHI or LEHIGH but 5 letter starting w/ L -- I know I know beat me later <G>
> I got something resembling LAHEL (I wrote what I heard but put little trust in it) cause Sizzle Metro had no idea who it was that was 
> calling them -- 
> >
> >Walt:
> >
> >Have you ever heard them spell out this callsign?

Unless something has changed recently you should always keep in mind that
the flight plan system only has seven spaces for the callsign. This means
there are many cases where the planes may routinely use something longer
and shorten it for ATC. REACH 1234 could be RCH1234, for exapmle.



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