norwegian with rednose is my favorite!

will always love Cactus, I think of Sully whenever I hear the word!

I really like Norwegians callsign "Rednose".. Reminds me on Rudolph every time hahaha

My favourite is definitely ‘Speedbird’ as well.

1:40 Cactus 1549 ;) the flight that ended up in the hudson river !

make video of "how pilot can hear atc" please...

I would give second place to China Airlines "Dynasty." That just sounds so impressive. One former call sing that was funny was ValuJet's "Critter," which referred to the anthropomorphic airplane that was their logo. There is a movement among aviation fans to get Air Wisconsin to adopt the callsign, "Cheese Head," but there has been no success to date.

I learned something from this video. I thought the call sign "Speedbird" was unique to the Concorde. Thanks.

Yeah, I knew Speedbird would be number one from the start! :D

China airlines too : Dynasty.

And what about Clipper from PanAm... That was a legendary callsign .

Every aviation lover must love the speedbird call sign. It's just too awesome!

Capt. Joe, great lil' video, as always. I have a favorite. The Hawaiian Airlines daily non-stop from Honolulu to New York is flight 50. Pilots and controllers often ignore the official radio designation of “Hawaiian 50” and use the call sign “Hawaii Five-O” to pay homage to the classic (and reboot) TV police drama. It’s technically incorrect radio procedure, but how can they resist? Steve McGarrett would be proud. Book ’em, Danno!

My favorite: "Clipper" for the long gone Pan Am.

One of my favorites that I’ve heard is Rednose for Norwegian Air

3:21 Indianapolis, Florida? xDD Mixing up Daytona and the Brickyard, silly goose.

I personally always loved PanAm's "Clipper" callsign. It just sounds majestic and reminds you that flying used to have style and class.

Love it Captain Joe! I also loved the coincidence of Speedbird being the callsign when the Concorde was in use.

Trans States Airlines, which was a regional carrier for TWA but now for United Express and American Eagle has the callsign "Waterski"

As an Air Traffic Controller, my favorite was "Wild Onion."

Hi Joe, great list! How about another top 10 but this time the ten most beautiful liveies (both present and retro)?

You forgot one :DD Citilink with the Callsign "SUPERGREEN" ;)

Love videos like this! For those who don't know about "Indy", they kept a stretch of bricks a yard deep across the finish line, called the "yard of bricks". Being Welsh, the Red Dragon is very dear to my heart, so it's lovely to know that it was the call sign! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Awesome Video Joe.

Air Asia Kuala Lumpur Callsign is 'RedCap' Air Asia India Callsign is 'Red Knight' These are amazing Too

I can honestly say I knew one callsign coming in to this video and that was Speedbird......I somehow still knew it would be number one. It is the best though!

Dankie kaptein Joe, jou videos is die beste ek is mal oor dit

So glad that "Cactus" made this list. Both my parents used to work for America West (on the ground, Mom worked at the call center and Dad worked at the airport) before it was bought out. So many wonderful childhood memories on those planes.

Olympic used to do transatlantic flights with big 747s, now it is reduced to island hopping with turboprops :(

Captain Joe.. Video on fuel dumping, VOR ILS navigation please.

I knew Speedbird, Springbok and Shamrock had to be in there :D nice video cap. Joe!

Genuinely never knew that BA used 'Speedbird' love this, cheers Joe

Speedbird has to be the coolest callsign ever

Of course the g'd ol Speedbird 😀

Yay finnaly you mentioned South African Airways

Well that explains things. - Great video.

ASTERIX - Callsingn of Avcon Jet, a major business jet operator based in Vienna

What do yo do if during flight your girl tell you her parents aren't home?

I know it's not a proper call sign - but I always enjoyed when Kennedy Steve referred to to the Gulf Streams and other private jets as "The Top 1%".

Thank you Captain Joe! 😘

Sunexpress Germany : sunrise

Citilink: Super Green

Great video Cpt Joe. You are the best in this subject.

I am so happy speedbird is your fav too! It's definitely mine!

Springbok made it...yaaaaay!! :-)

Hey Captain Joe! I have a question: when working for an airline and transitioning from copilot to captain, how does the transition work in terms of what you fly? So say the airline has A320s, A330s, A350s, and A380s. Would one do copilot A320 to captain A320 to copilot A330 to captain A330 to copilot A350 to captain A350 etc.? Or would it be copilot A320 to copilot A330 to copilot A350 to copilot A380 to captain A320 to captain A330 to captain A350 etc.? One other question: how does the lottery for what routes a pilot flies work? Like I know an American Airlines 767 pilot who does only the JFK-MXP or maybe that and one other route. Especially how does to work for a shorthall plane that may do LHR-FRA-LHR-DUB-LHR-AMS-LHR-ZRH-LHR in one day? Do shortfall pilots get more roots so they can stay with one plane for more time in a day? Thank you so much! -Ben Kohl

3:58 he knew what he was saying and he said it gracefully :)

My old time favourite was the Canadian airline CPAir. Their call sign was 'Emporess' and I loved to hear it on approach into Manchester in the 70's. Memories!!!😁😁

Cactus 1549 is the callsign used from us airways flight 1549 (miracle on the Hudson).

Indianapolis is in Indiana. Not Florida.

That logo is creative, and I’m impressed

Captain Joe, speedbird is my favorite... thanks for your eloquent discussion of its use with the Concorde. Also "Saguaro" is pronounced "sa-HWA-ro" :) Ehud Gavron Tucson Arizona, home of the most saguaros FAA Commecial Helicopter Pilot

Almost thought Speedbird was not going to make it😂

Tbh, speedbird can't be beaten

nice touch using the Cactus 1549 callsign

I love watching your videos for information

Cactus 1549 and Speedbird 7 my favourite

A United States Air Force T-6 Training Squadron in Pensacola, FL has the callsign "Jedi".

Been using it since 1976. I love the relaxed attitude of the crew. Didn't know about speedbird though. I'm partial to owls which are basically VTOs and would cause too much drag with their soft fluffy sound dampeners! So cute! So is BA

Hearing Joe pronounce Saguaro made my day. As a native Arizonian it made me chuckle.

Kestrel is Thomas Cooks call sign which is pretty cool. Pegasus, a low cost Turkish carrier have the call sign Sunturk

TUI Netherlands: Orange

Great explanatory videos Joe! Learned a lot as a flightsimmer ;-)

I like how you used comms from Flight 1549 for the Cactus callsign....... nice touch joe.....nice touch

*Shows A330* “Cactus 1549” How clever

Cactus 1549 That is the a320 that landed in the Hudson River

speedbird is my fav too. sounds nice, matches the industry

YES, I was waiting all the way till the end hoping it was BA. Amazing callsign!

The all time best callsign, without debate, has GOT to be 'FrontierFlight'.

1:41 US Airways A330 - Infamous Kiss Landings?? :D

haha, nice! Just as I thought you forgot the good old "speedbird"!

TAP Portugal (ATC callsign Air Portugal) once had a single flight with the callsign CHAMPS. They were flying the FC Porto football team after winnig the Champeons League. I've never heared about other flight with this callsign. And thank you Captain Joe for you fantastic videos!

Captain, how about a piece on Continuous Descent Approach or CDA (aka Optimized Profile Descent)? Oh ... the cactus is pronounced "sa-war-o"

Valujet: Critter- the mascot/logo of the company. Airtran: Citrus- One of the callsigns in miss.

Speedbird immediately came to mind. I see Dynasty has been mention below. Thanks for sharing.

One never forgets the voice of that irish captain on Shamrock11EA. He did a fantastic job of remaining calm, giving clear, concise instructions and requests to ATC when one of his hydraulic systems failed.

Springbok!

TigerAir is the Ryanair of Australia. I know bc I have only been on it once in my life AND I live in Australia.

thank you captain

Topswiss for Easy jet Switzerland sounds cool ! 😇

Regional Express Australia beats everything, just 'REX' & Mokulele Airlines US - Speedbuggy

What is your scariest experience during flying an airplane ?

If you go to Longreach Queensland you can visit the Qantas aviation museum. It's a great experience to have I would recommend the the jet tour and wing walk.

Like this video. From Thailand.

Cactus 1549 isn't that the same callsigh as the us AIRWAYS a320 that ditched in the Hudson

+Captain Joe you do realize you used cactus 1549 for the Cactus/US airways call sign. If you do not know who that is that's the callsign for the miracle on the Hudson

I got way too excited to hear Brickyard made the list. Hometown !

Trans States Airlines (United Express) callsign “Waterski”

3:21 Indianapolis, Florida?

Great video. Love the info. Shout out to Speedbird 191 lading at AUS 6:45! I wish it had actually been some of the background birds landing here.

Stellardrone! Good choice in music :)

I have a question! Can you explain me or us, what "CAT I", "CAT II" or "CAT III" means?

wasn't speedbird mostly used for Concorde and then moved to all British Airways planes? No? alright

Luv the BA callsign

Thanks captain Joe!

4:29 A340-600

“Sah-nor-an” desert. And it’s the “sah-whar-oh” cactus. Thanks Joe!

As a NASCAR and Indycar fan, I must admit that I had never heard of the "Brickyard" call, but it is now my favorite 🏁🏁

Thank you, Captain Joe, for teaching me something new. Honestly I didn't even know what callsigns are and what they're good for ;)

Air transat - “AIR TRANSAT”