The call sign was used during a CF-18 Hornet fighter jet flight in the UK on Monday
    • Rocket@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      You’d think it is still 1969 with the claims of this being unprofessional. The world has moved on, CAF.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    The last article I read was an American high school football coach using the word Nazi as a play call against a school that’s 90% Jewish and the players using antisemitic slurs throughout the game.

    That deserves an investigation and firing, this kind of Tom Foolery requires an eye roll and a change of call sign, if that.

  • Jesse@lemmy.ca
    281·
    1 year ago

    This thorough, week long investigation has concluded that it was kind of humorous.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I, for one, welcome the inescapable conclusions derived from bureaucratically-compelled inquests into inherently humorous and light-hearted happenings.

  • frostbiker@lemmy.ca
    121·
    1 year ago

    It’s my understanding that pilots don’t get to choose their callsigns. Instead, it’s their teammates who choose them, which is why they are often jokes at the expense of the pilot. E.g. the callsign of Ewan McGregor’s brother was OB-2.

    • Hype@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      Callsigns for pilots, yes. This article is conflating callsigns with the plane’s identification/flight number.

      • frostbiker@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ok, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clarifying. Do you know who chooses that?

  • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I saw a headline regarding this the other day, it called it something like “offensive call sign” and I immediately thought it would be something deeply awful and probably racist. Imagine my relief when I read on and learned it was instead something stupid and sophomoric.

    The pilot deserves no more than a talking too for making a silly joke.