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The viper rolling off the runway and several beers in my belly reminded me of the RSU comments at pilot training. A few that I remember:

TTYNR: Take that, you naughty runway

WAE: Welcome aboard, ensign

BKIH: Burger King is hiring

NAFOD: No apparent fear of death

Seemed like every flight, not mine of course ;)

IRC: Incorrect radio call

HF: High flare

IF: Incomplete flare

FTD: Firm touchdown

And my favorite

EBOR: Excessive Breathing on Radio

CTWFTLOAFA

Came to Wizard far too late on a Friday afternoon

Edited by dontshavemyhead

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I was going more for the funny ones. dontshavemyhead gets it.

IRT: Italian Radio Transmission

WAS: Welcome aboard sailor

LFALOW: Look for another line of work

BBTF = Brought (the) Box To (its) Feet

AFUOL: All ######ed Up On Landing

LIP: Lost In Pattern

EPFOR = Entered pattern for opposite runway

MILF = Made Impressively Late Flare

IAEBG= It aint easy being green, a dude in our flight sounded like kermit on the radio.

Yuck it up, these are now done electronically through TIMs and attached to the gradesheets, permanently.

BLAW - Broke Like a Woman

SLAW - sounds like a woman

(also acceptable for b-course prenaming)

Yuck it up, these are now done electronically through TIMs and attached to the gradesheets, permanently.

Columbus is still keeping it old fashioned.

SRV - Sexy Radio Voice

CLGR - Carrier Landing Currency Rehacked

SMC - Sweet Mericful Crap

My personal favorite:

TCAFQ - These Comments Are For Queers

Yuck it up, these are now done electronically through TIMs and attached to the gradesheets, permanently.

Wizard (XL Aux) can barely keep the electricity on half the time. I doubt they'll be getting the internets or TIMS out there soon.

I remember sitting #1 when an Eagle landed at Vance. The RSU came on the radio (I recognized the voice of a check section FAIP who thought he was the shit) and said "F-15 on short final go around!" and the dude came back with "If you can shake the stick, you can take the jet..." and he landed. I laughed my ass off the entire sortie after that one.

I was working the RSU as the recorder one day, and a fellow classmate was on her pattern sortie, and would NOT request closed. Instead she just flew the entire box pattern(no STS here). The controller told me to write down WU/S for her callsign(It meant Wuss).

Edited by amcflyboy

Yuck it up, these are now done electronically through TIMs and attached to the gradesheets, permanently.

Who cares? I don't think anyone is going to be delayed into the FLUG/IPUG because some booger-eating FAIP wrote a pseudo-witty comment about the flare on a guy's pattern solo in T-6s.

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