Finally got around to looking at my first carrier traffic - never had any at all so thought I'd take a peek at Falcon 907 & 908 shooting the wire (correct?) on the Abraham Lincoln....















Cheers

Mark

Nice shots, in this case around the "boat" these two should be using their MODEX numbers, in this case 210 and 211. Did you mean "shoot the approach"?

Victory103 wrote:Nice shots, in this case around the "boat" these two should be using their MODEX numbers, in this case 210 and 211. Did you mean "shoot the approach"?

You learn something new here everyday! Do they use their regular callsign plus the modex numbers? So these two would have been Falcon 210 & 211 for example?

.....I knew there was a proper phrase for it, I just assumed* that the wets had a different phrase, and "shooting the wire" sounded good from my point of view

(*ASSUME - makes an ASS out of U & ME.......gets me every time)

Brevity is the key in radio comms around the carrier. Day VFR landings (Case I) can be flown what's called "zip-lip", meaning radio silence. Generally, the modex is used without the callsign, unless for example 110, 210, and 310 are all flying the same cycle. Given the modex, one can tell what type airframe and which squadron just from the numbers.

Nice shots delbydoo,what water textures are you using? they look great.