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A friend of mine who lives in Iowa was a sheriff's deputy before he became a pilot. Much to his chagrin he had to totally relearn the phonetic alphabet.
 
Norman said:
A friend of mine who lives in Iowa was a sheriff's deputy before he became a pilot. Much to his chagrin he had to totally relearn the phonetic alphabet.
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I’m a cop AND a pilot. It sucks trying to keep the two alphabets separate.
 
Yeah, my first flight training was when I was 16, so I had the pilot phonetics down pat. Then I started cop work and had to re-learn it all cop style. Why the cops thought we had to re-do the phonetic alphabet is beyond me. I thought the military did a pretty good job. Then I started flying again and had to re-learn pilot phonetics again. Geez, back and forth, back and forth!
 
JCranford said:
Yeah, my first flight training was when I was 16, so I had the pilot phonetics down pat. Then I started cop work and had to re-learn it all cop style. Why the cops thought we had to re-do the phonetic alphabet is beyond me. I thought the military did a pretty good job. Then I started flying again and had to re-learn pilot phonetics again. Geez, back and forth, back and forth!
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Ya ever hear the guys on the police radio that forget the “cop phonetics” and start making them up? Hilarious!
 
I never could figure out why police departments didn’t switch to the standard phonetic alphabet years ago.
 
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