Murray Wheten wrote:
If I am flying an AAL flight on VATSIM, should I use AAL#### or AA####? Your choice
If I am flying an EGF flight on VATSIM, I should use EGF####? Yes
If I am flying as part of a GFI on VATSIM, I should use AAL"my pilot number" or EGF"my pilot number" depending on the A/C flown? Yes use AAL or AA or EGF
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Now this is in red just to highlite it. Many of us here at AAV do not know this.
The use of the AA designator is totally optional to you. It makes us different to VATSIM controllers from the other AAL VA's. If you care to have them know. Also you may put in your FP remarks your are AAvirtual.com
Although, I did not know that if we used AA in our callsign that made us stand out as AAVirtual to controllers and everyone else (apart from the rest)...
Thanks Wayne; gonna have to start using AA314 from now on...
Actually we use the AA callsign because of a gentleman's agreement between AAV and that other VA. As a number of you know there were several disputes online because AVA pilots thought they owner a specific callsign. They arrived at this erroneous conclusion because they always fly using their pilot number instead of the actual flight number. Thus when someone is making a flight whose flight number happens to be the same as an online AVA pilot he feels that person has taken his callsign.
The gentleman's agreement made a long time ago between the two VA's was that AAV would us AAxxxx for our callsigns. There is a thread that discusses this but I can't find it now.
Murray Wheten wrote:You're right Wayne. That's one of the reasons why I asked for the clarifications. I don't want to be flying for "unkown"... for one thing, they don't have a union!!! Even though I love flying, I hate doing it for minimum wage!!!!
Murray
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