able baker charlie dog easy fox On 04/10/2021 15:10, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 09:35:39 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > >> Ok, I give up. I have favorite-newscaster stories, too, but I don't get >> this one. What's an EFT cargo hatch? Is this so obvious a failure that >> I'll be required by law to kick myself when it's explained to me, or >> something that only pilots know, or what? >> > I struggled for vernacular phonetic vowel names and apparently failed. > > If the newscaster had been an aviator he couldd have said Alfa Foxtrot Tango. > But an aviator or a mariner wouldn't have needed to. > > I believe he said in defense that it appeared in caps in his script. But if > that > came off a teletype everything would have been caps. > > I once recited a serial number to Tech Support using NATO phonetic alphabet. > She understood immediately; no request for clarification. Perhaps she was > a veteran. Why can't local emergency services concur on a phonetic alphabet? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . >
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