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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby Pakistan-1 » Mon Jan 04, 2016 2:52 am

My Nick Name is the official callsign for Aircraft that is carrying the president of Pakistan (It's kinda like The Airforce one of Pakistan)
And my surname is Siddiqui and according to Wikipedia it is
Siddiqui is a family name or surname. Siddiqui means The Truthful in Arabic. Siddiquis are spread all over the world mainly the Middle east, Asia Pacific and Europe. Siddiquis are the descendants of the first Muslim Caliph Abu Bakr as-Siddiq of the Rashidun Caliphate (The four Rightly guided Calips).
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby MIG29pilot » Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:46 pm

PINTO wrote in Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:53 pm:When I first started flightgear, I googled "pilot nicknames" or something. Found a website, put in my name, and it gave me the nickname "Pinto". So I just rolled with it. The only other nicknames I use online are loki for dev stuff, and soweliPeka (soweli Peka is toki pona for "mammal named Peka") for other normal stuff. But english speakers tend to have a harder time pronouncing soweliPeka, so yeah. =]

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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby F_D2760 » Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:58 am

Hi,

F for France
D for Germany, I can't explain in a shorter other way why, I'm keen on Germany!
27 for my birth area
60 for my living area

That's all to tell!

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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby MIG29pilot » Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:35 pm

Um...
How can a number stand for one's birth area(unless it's a zipcode)
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby F_D2760 » Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:36 am

Hi

@MIG29pilot : France is divided into 18 administrative regions: 13 regions in metropolitan France (including the territorial collectivity of Corsica), and five located overseas. The regions are further subdivided into 101 departments, which are numbered mainly alphabetically. (From Wikipedia)

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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby MIG29pilot » Sat Jan 09, 2016 4:36 pm

Ok
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby J Maverick 16 » Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:58 am

J Maverick 16 is formed by the first letter of my real name, then there's a bit of Top Gun inspiration ;) and finally 16 stands for my birthday, which is January 6th.
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby Foxtrot15 » Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:14 am

J Maverick 16 is formed by the first letter of my real name, then there's a bit of Top Gun inspiration ;) and finally 16 stands for my birthday, which is January 6th.
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Nice callsign. Definitely competes with my Ice-99.
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby MIG29pilot » Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:03 pm

My callsign might be better only FG always abbreviates it to MIG29pi :? :shock:
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby Johan G » Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:20 pm

The callsigns can only be 7 alphanumerical characters long, most probably since that is the maximum length of aircraft identification in real life (be that a registration number or a flight id).
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby FlightJunkie » Sun May 01, 2016 7:21 pm

Well, Wad'ya think? 8)
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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby Octal450 » Tue May 03, 2016 11:10 pm

I managed to get 411 from when I was learning FG, i kept increasing the flight number and at 411, FGFS stopped working for the first time. Aftering reinstalling, I never bothered to change is after that.

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Re: What do your nickname and surname mean?

Postby wkitty42 » Wed May 04, 2016 3:53 am

interesting... 411 is the telco information (aka number lookup) service for the US :)
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