Those particular expamples would be made-up for "fun", and are taken from some of the law enforcement phonetics. Some of the 'old times' like to use "Sugar" for "S" instead of the correct "Sierra". Many of the old-bold G-1/II/ and a few other pilots used "Sugar" all the time if there was an "S" in the call sign. Keep in mind however...if there were to be an accident/incident because of undocumented or incorrect radio phrasology, you can bet all hell would break loose. About every few years or so, the FAA gets into a spaz of some sorts about using proper radio phrasology. I've used improper phonetics a time or two, but only cause I was familir with the controllers. Walter DCA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Greenwood" <mgreenwood@telus.net> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 17:02 Subject: Re: United's flight number scheme (was Re: AC's 3xxx flight #s) > I have experienced the same think, Americans use King instead of Kilo and > Queen instead of Quebec. > > Mark >