Air Whiskey call sign

[falcon20driver]

Do they go by Air Whisky on the radio?

 

[ILLINI]

Uhhhh.....

No. Just plain ole' "Wisconsin"

Air Whisky/Willy is just a name that is used among pilots. Not sure why though. Guess it just sounds funnny!

 

[falcon20driver]

That makes sense.

Anyone know the story behind waterski and TSA?

 

[j41driver]

That makes sense.

Anyone know the story behind waterski and TSA?

I heard that it had something to do with a previous owner or something that they always flew somewhere to go waterskiing. Something like that anyway...not sure if it's true.

 

[ClearRight]

I think it's something like they used to take a bunch of pleasure-seekers to the Ozarks. Lots of water-skiing in them lakes, I guess.

 

[jjetpilot]

ClearRight nailed it on the head.......

 

[ArcticFlier]

Air Cheese.....................

AF

 

[w4mch]

That makes sense.

Anyone know the story behind waterski and TSA?

Company used to be Resort Air out of STL before all the regionals sold their souls to fly for just one major.

From a "mudder", call sign ValAir.

Anybody know who we were?

 

[J32driver]

Air Willy, Air Cheese, Air Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Dairy Air... Hell, I answer to D A M N E D near anything. I even used to answer to Waterski and just plain old ski!

If your looking for the technical answer, yes it is "Wisconsin".

 

[crashpad]

To get the authentic Air Wisconsin pilot-accent on the radio you have to imitate a mix of Edward G. Robinson and Donald Duck with a d1ck in his mouth. It's the only way you get the "I got blitzed on Blatz lastnight" effect.

Of course, if your a Whiskey girl pilot then you just imitate the soft resonant sounds of a Racoon Eating A Cat!

 

[Beechnut]

Which ultimately ends up sounding like "scanson" over the air.

S.

 

[hawg2b]

Company used to be Resort Air out of STL before all the regionals sold their souls to fly for just one major.

From a "mudder", call sign ValAir.

Anybody know who we were?

was it mva?

 

[Mel Sharples]

If your looking for the technical answer, yes it is "Wisconsin".

That's funny because most pilots know it is "Wisconsin" but it seems like most of the controllers say "Air Wisconsin." I wonder if they don't know the difference or if the official callsign in the ATC guidebook is different.

Weird.

 

[No2Bttmfeeders]

When Awac flies out west sometimes ABQ center and LA Center calls AWAC a "Catus" flight since the identifier looks alike on a screen.

 

[w4mch]

was it mva?

Right you are!

Mississippi Valley Airlines

Moline, IL

"Flying you around in our Shorts!"

Bought by Air Wisconsin in 1985

You win a big block of aged wisconsin cheddar cheese for playing!

 

[CatYaaak]

Shouldn't they just use the callsign "GOPACKERS!" and be done with it?

 

[General Lee]

"waterski" comes from one of their old SWM metros hydroplaning and ripping the gear off---it looked like a single waterski skidding on the top of the water....

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[arkflyr]

Right you are!

Mississippi Valley Airlines

Moline, IL

"Flying you around in our Shorts!"

Bought by Air Wisconsin in 1985

You win a big block of aged wisconsin cheddar cheese for playing!

Ok logged in on my own know I didn't realize I was on my friends login. My dad flew for them back then, and it kind of made sense.

 

[fuzzy077]

Ok logged in on my own know I didn't realize I was on my friends login

so what?

 

[Beer&Brauts]

According to most of the controllers down in the SE the correct call sign for Air Wisconsin is "Air Midwest."

Then there is the ATL center guy who calls us "wisCOOOONNNNNNsin 21xx every friggin' time.

 

[Twotter76]

Our callsign is "Wisconsin". Thats what we are taught in training and what most of us use on the radio (I might use AirShuttle if i've just done something stupid ). On their screen ATC sees us as AWIxxxx which is why at least once every day I get called "Cactus xxxx" since America West shows up as AWAxxxx to ATC. The controllers refer to us as Air Wisconsin at least half of the time. I went and looked it up in their glossary (there is a link to that around here somewhere) and our callsign is actually listed as "Air Wisconsin" but we dont use it. I know that Cheesehead has a nice ring to it but I try to minimize its use...

 

[beech1900kid]

That makes sense.

Anyone know the story behind waterski and TSA?

A couple of guys got it right about waterskiing in the Ozark Mountains...to add to that, when the company started way back when it only flew to the "Waterski Resort." They inherited the name of the resort and it stuck all these years.

In other news, I heard that ACA had registered the callsign "Independence" several years ago and actually used to call themselves Independence on the radio before they switched to Blue Ridge. Any idea if this is true and if so why did they stop?

 

[w4mch]

ACA never had Independence as a call sign, but that is one of the calls we are being polled on now at our company web site. Before Blue Ridge there was Shasta and one other, but that was back when I was using "Wisconsin". I think the other one was Sundance, I could be wrong, but those two were used for a short time when ACA was still a division of WestAir.

Proud Mudder, AKA ValAir...

 

[FlyChicaga]

I thought the Waterski callsign had to do with Hulas and his facination with WSking or something. Well what do I know.

 

[jergar999]

If Wisconsin would just start going by DairyAir on the radio things would be a lot easier.