Navy to Change Pilot Call Sign Protocol After Minority Aviators Report Bias

[rangerrebew]

Navy to Change Pilot Call Sign Protocol After Minority Aviators Report Bias

21 May 2019 By

Hope Hodge Seck

The head of naval aviation has directed the creation of a new process for approving and reviewing pilots' call signs after two African-American aviators at an F/A-18 Hornet training squadron in Virginia filed complaints alleging racial bias in the unit, from which they said they were unfairly dismissed.

In a formal endorsement letter signed May 13, Vice Adm. DeWolfe Miller, commander of Naval Air Forces, said he found the two aviators, a Navy lieutenant and a Marine Corps captain, were correctly removed from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 out of Naval Air Station Oceana due to "substandard performance," despite errors and inconsistencies discovered in the grading and ranking process.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/21/navy-change-pilot-call-sign-protocol-after-minority-aviators-report-bias.html

[thackney]

There are three rules in coming up with a callsign:

1. If you don’t already have one, you will be assigned one by your “buddies”.
2. You probably won’t like it.
3. If you complain and moan too much about 1. and 2., you’ll get a new nickname you’ll like even less!

The 100+ Most Creative Pilot Callsigns With Explanations
https://aviationhumor.net/the-100-most-creative-pilot-callsigns-with-explanations/

Agony – A man named Payne
Air-Fix – Pretty vain and looked like a model apparently… i.e. air fix model. He was an engineer though , not a pilot – hence the fix part…
ALF – Annoying Little F**k...

[sneakypete]

Did da po bay-bays finally have to face up to the reality the rest of us live with wid no AA to protect them?

Awwwwwww.

Hey! It was just a multi-million dollar aircraft and the lives of everyone around them and the people living and working under where they were flying that were at risk. Most of them were white,so no big deal,right?

I hope that unnamed USMC Major becomes the CO of the USMC.