Screen Names.

No brainer really after all I do live in what I call the greatest country on earth :).

My original screen name was 'Bigfella', a nickname I acquired when I was working on the railways. This came about as I was pushing the scales at about 125 kilos at the time. Although I was a tradesman we always mucked in and helped each other with lifting and moving parts. Anyway when they needed my help some bright spark called me Bigfella one day and it stuck.

When I discovered the internet and chat sites like ICQ that was the name I chose to use but people misconstrued the meaning and I got sick of trying to explain the meaning of the name so changed it to Aussieman and have used it ever since. There are a couple of forums where I have had to change it because someone else had taken the name but the Aussie part has always remain with numbers at the end.
 
Just kept it simple. First initial and last name. Thought about using something witty or punny (like wingnut) but decided to make it easy to remember. After all, I'm not getting any younger.
 
Long ago and not very far away I was chatting with the FBO at a nearby seaplane base when a beat-up truck bounced to a stop and a disreputable looking bum climbed out with a big steel gear in one hand. He headed toward a sad looking Cessna 120 on floats when the FBO yelled, "Hey Sonny? You gonna file a flight plan?" The guy replied, "Ayuh. I'm gonna fly this gear out to East Overshoe and I'll be back before dark."
When it came time to select an online name, I chose East Overshoe but the forum made me drop the East part.
 
Mine is my old callsign and squadron number. The origin of the callsign is best kept between myself and the clergy. ;)

Deacon
 
Mine was given to me when I was working for Ford as a mechanic. I was building a model of one of the new cars we got in at the dealership, along with one of the boss's kids car. It just stuck, as it seems I'm always building some kind of model.
 
Got mine while eating dinner, and needed a quick name, of course, we were having tacos for dinner.

Jim
 
A nickname I pulled up from my Coast Guard days flying the (then) new HH-65A Dolphin. When our AVDET (Aviation Detachment) deployed aboard a cutter, the cutter crew started calling the aircraft SARWOLF because it bore somewhat of a resemblance to AIRWOLF in the TV series. The "SAR" of course meaning Search and Rescue. The name kind of stuck with the cutter crews and many refered to the HH-65 as SARWOLF. I just changed the O to U to make it more unique. Some of the aviators in the USCG were refered to as SAR HOUNDS if they got a reputation for always getting more SAR missions than anyone else in the unit. Some other nicknames thrown about included: TUPPERWOLF (because of all of the composite materials in the aircraft), and PLASTIC CHICKEN (for the same reason). That's it.
 
Jafo....

If you don't know what it means you're possibly in the wrong game...;)

I started as a Motor Race Official in 1975 .... as a 'Comms/Observer' ...and am still doing it. This year's Australian F1 GrandPrix was my 30th consecutive AGP and the only 'Jafo' who has done them all [and the 5 prior ... also AGPs but not International F1]...;)
 
I got into flight simming when my brother first started flying the first Fighter Ace beta, I think that was around 1995, or 1996. Being an aviation nut and aero-engineer, he thought I would like it. I hated it until I shot someone down, then I thought it was kind of cool and started getting the hang of it. After a while I was playing it regularly and was very good at it. I was flying under my brother's nic, "Master Of Sparks," when I was asked to join a squadron forming there, The Devildogs. Even though the guy who formed it had been in the USAF, his cousin had been a fighter pilot in the Marines, hence the squadron name.

Anyway, I was trying to think of an "aerial phenomenon" to use as a name, but of course Lightning and Thunderbolt were already in use. Then I remembered a lyric from a Rush song which is, "Sundogs fire on the horizon...", which I took out of context and thought since I was joining the Devildogs squadron would make sense. I kept it when we moved to Aces High and all of the first people I knew online were from that sim fighter squadron and that's how everyone has ever known me as online and in online messaging, etc.
 
TARPS is the acronym for the Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Pod System used for photo recce on the F-14 Tomcat. My last tour in the Navy was at VF-101, the F-14 training squadron at NAS Oceana. I taught TARPS intro and photo mission planning and graded the syllabus photo hops flown by the student aviators.
 
I am named after my favorite helicopter of course, Eurocopter Astar AS350 which I created almost 14 years ago for my very first email address. My real name is George, but it's cool to call me by my screen name:wavey:
 
Hi there!

When I was a kid (in the early 1980s) there were 2 other kids on the Handball team with my first name, to make it easier on the coach we were given names based on our favorite cars...mine was at that time the Volkswagen Transporter which in Germany was called "Bulli"...
That stuck with me all through the other teams I played for. When I joined the German Air Force and started flying on the E-3A that became my call sign, only to have the "i" being exchanged for a "y"...and the 707 for the love of my life (well next to my wife that is...) the B707 I flew on for 7 years...
 
No connection what so ever. I just hit the keyboard a few times I use the same username on all flight forums.
 
Obvious but,
that damn plane was in my life at an early age as I lived near the Boeing plant in Seattle. Kept seeing new ones lined up. Later didn't want to join the military so I enlisted in the Air Force....and ended up with those damn buffs again .
 
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