Pilot Radio Speak

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When firing a missile, you ALWAYS call to squadron members, so they know to keep out of your way. Calls are:

Fox One - semiactive radar guided missile, uses the aircraft's radar to track, requires pilot to hold a lock (like the AIM-7 Sparrow, chances are we will never use these, they are obsolete)

Fox Two - simply put, a heatseeker (AIM-9 Sidewinders or the AIM-132 ASRAAMs we carry right now)

Fox Three - Active radar guided missile - missile locks on and tracks target on its own (AIM-120D AMRAAM, AIM-54C Phoenix)

Also, if we say anything else that doesnt make sense to anyone, please refer to this:

www.tailhook.org/AVSLANG.htm

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Having some aviation knowledge (I'm in an aviation program at University of Alaska, Anchorage), there are some jargon/terms I thought I'd add here that I did not see on the link you provided. All though we're talking spacecraft here, some of the terms can still apply depending on certain situations and if they ever go planet side. Just thought I'd try to help out by sharing a little of what I know. *<3's aviation* =D There are just a handful of key terms I can think of for now.

Holding/holding short (this is actually being changed, but to what, I'd have to look into that again) : the aircraft will wait for traffic until cleared by ATC or another observer/commander.
Example: "Birchwood traffic, Helicopter Seven Victor Charlie holding short of Taxi-way Delta."

Holding pattern: where not in the pattern at an airport, usually nearby as directed by ATC or by choice, a pilot will remain at a certain altitude and make a 360 pattern, or a tear dropped shape until they have room/clearance to land. They will usually do this by choice, but are supposed to read back the ATC's orders if they tell them to stay in a holding pattern.
Example: "Merill Tower, Helicopter Seven Victor Charlie staying in holding pattern."

Go-around: where a pilot will determine if the approach is unsatisfactory/unsafe, and decides to go back into pattern altitude.
Example: "Birchwood traffic, Helicopter Seven Victor Charlie making a go around."

"Staying in pattern": Where the aircraft/spacecraft keeps stays in one box-like landing patterns at an airport.
Example: "Birchwood traffic, Helicopter Seven Victor Charlie taking the active One Niner Left, staying in pattern."

"Downwind" and "base" legs: Refers to the downwind leg in an approach pattern. It's usually 700 feet for STOL aircraft like helicopters, where as other fixed wings stay at around 1000 feet before hitting the 'base' leg, which is 90 degrees to the targeted landing spot. This can be used of course, when making calls with other spacecraft nearby, particularly on planet side. This may be used for more precise flying depending on a situation.
Example: (Downwind) "Birchwood traffic, Helicopter Seven Victor Charlie on downwind for One Niner Left."
(Base) "Birchwood traffic, Helicopter Seven Victor Charlie on left/right base for One Niner Left." be sure to state which way you're going relative to YOUR position on base when making an approach to the ship or target on land.

"Final" approach: this is one of the trying times for a pilot, where if they're too high and/or going too fast, they have to decide to go around or continue the approach to the ground. (this is another y'all probably know)
Example: "Birchwood traffic, Helicopter Seven Victor Charlie on final for One Niner Left."

WILCO: Y'all may already know of this one, it stands for 'will comply." this one can be used among crew in ground based operations as well.

[Jason Conway]

Reviewed and endorsed by admin for Meropis v2.0. Good information!