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As far as recoveries go, yes, they refer to their parent ship as "Mother." However each ship has its own individual callsign. When referring to Approach or Marshal, they use the ship's unique callsign.

 

e.g. The John C. Stennis' actual callsign is "Gold Eagle." So over the radio it would be "Gold Eagle Approach", or "Gold Eagle Marshal."

 

EDIT: "Gold Eagle" is actually the USS Carl Vinson, my mistake.


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To fill in the other ones:

 

(CV-59) USS Forrestal - Handbook

(CV-60) USS Saratoga - Fair Field

(CVN-65) USS Enterprise - Climax

(CVN-69) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower - Ike

(CVN-75) USS Harry S. Truman - Lone Warrior

(CVN-76) USS Ronald Reagan - Freedom

(CVN-77) USS George H.W. Bush - Avenger

(CVN-78) USS Gerald R. Ford - Wolverine


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That's cool to know! thank you guys!

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Are these call signs implemented in DCS's F/A-18 module? I've been flying Instant Action's Case 1 landings and can't seem to get the Stennis to respond. Any advice.

 

The callsigns don't mean anything to DCS, those are just the real-world callsigns, maybe once we get the new LSO system in place we might see something like that. As far as talking to the carrier, check what frequency the ship is set to in the mission editor.

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I'd like to pick the brains of the people who create callsigns / operation names. Some of them make sense (Like Roosevelt being "Rough Rider"), but others make me wonder how much they were smoking when they came up with the callsign.

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Tholozar: Thanks for the heads up on the mission editor. Since the F-18 release, I've been doing more trouble shooting trying to set up my second monitor with viewports and HELIOS panels than flying. As soon as I get everything sorted out, I'll be in my modest pit and flying missions as I use to do in the A-10 and BMS's F-16. A lot of work still ahead but, thanks again for your input.

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And for fictional names, I don’t recall the name of the carrier in the book Flight of the Intruder, but I’m pretty sure the radio callsign for it was “Battlestar”. I read that one in 8th grade when it first came out in paperback, so my memory is fuzzy.

 

 

I want to say the Shiloh, but it could have been the Shenandoah.:dunno:

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What was your source?

 

A lot of Googling. I unfortunately never bookmarked the pages I found them on and just wrote them all down in a txt. I did however manage to find all their 3-digit TACAN/IRCS codes in ACP 113 (unclassified callsign book for ships).

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I'd like to pick the brains of the people who create callsigns / operation names. Some of them make sense (Like Roosevelt being "Rough Rider"), but others make me wonder how much they were smoking when they came up with the callsign.

 

Sometimes it makes sense...others it’s purely random. Castle AFB in Merced California was Fog Patch...and anyone who’s flown there understands why. It gets foggy there in mornings.

 

At Beale the SR-71 callsign was “Aspen”...so the U2s took Pinion. (A tree that grows higher in the mountains than an Aspen tree.)


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As far as recoveries go, yes, they refer to their parent ship as "Mother." However each ship has its own individual callsign. When referring to Approach or Marshal, they use the ship's unique callsign.

 

e.g. The John C. Stennis' actual callsign is "Gold Eagle." So over the radio it would be "Gold Eagle Approach", or "Gold Eagle Marshal."

 

 

I believe The CVN-70 Carl Vinson is “Golden Eagle”

 

CVN-74 John Stennis’ callsign is “Johnny Reb”

 

 

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They sound like they are given much like pilot callsigns are given: plays on the names or histories of the ships.

 

Forrestal had a terrible fire happening due to procedural errors. Hence handbook.

 

George Bush Sr. flew TBM bombers in the war, hence avenger.

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I believe The CVN-70 Carl Vinson is “Golden Eagle”

 

CVN-74 John Stennis’ callsign is “Johnny Reb”

 

I swear, I looked high and low for the Stennis and could have sworn it was Gold Eagle, but yea, looks like that's the Vinson. :lol:

 

Where'd you find the Stennis? I've looked for ages.

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USS Enterprise - Climax

 

 

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USS Enterprise - Climax

USS Carl Vinson - Gold Eagle

USS Nimitz - Old Salt

USS Theodore Roosevelt - Rough Rider

USS Wasp - Charm

USS America - Courage

USS John F. Kennedy - Eagle Cliff

USS Bataan - Glory Gator

USS Ranger - Gray Eagle

USS Independence - Gun Train

USS Kitty Hawk - Panther

USS Tarawa - Proud Eagle

USS Abraham Lincoln - Union

USS Constellation - War Chief

USS George Washington - Warfighter

USS Hornet - Wimpy

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