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Who has "dot.com" as a call sign? Curious.

I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that it is some company that corporate uses to keep their tail numbers out of public view, or public ear in this case. They file your flight plan under a dot com call sign for a fee. They make money and the corporation is on the down low.
 
Fltplan.com offers those call signs for a price. Since the BARR program was (mostly) dismantled, this is a way for privately operated aircraft to maintain some anonymity from being tracked.
 
Maybe not on yours, but a checked item on ours.

Tail, flight, date is main header info on a full PDC ACARS message.

DotCom is a fleet name for Fltplan.com as noted above.
 
Uh...... when's the last time you saw a tail number on one of our PDC's or flight plans?

Gup
Happy thanksgiving Gup.

Now, try to imagine another world where you need to actually file a real flight plan, not a company PDC product, out there in the real world you need to provide tail numbers.

Geesh....
 
Happy thanksgiving Gup.

Now, try to imagine another world where you need to actually file a real flight plan, not a company PDC product, out there in the real world you need to provide tail numbers.

Geesh....

I've filed flight plans without using tail numbers. For example, Southwest Airlines would be filed as SWA1234 in the box designated for tail number.
 
Some-one asked that the other day on ATC, the pilot said they were a charter op mainly used by some hot-shot realtor outfit in the south.
 

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