Do you think pilots would be a little bit confused if?

Question

their radio communications were with a guy named Roger? So...when they say stuff like "Roger that" or "Roger" the guy on the other end would say "what?"

Answer 1

Is this original? It sounds very familiar to me. "What's your vector ,Victor?" "Surely, you can't be serious?" "Yes, I am totally serious and don't call me Shirley." "Have you ever seen a grown man naked, Timmy?"

Answer 2

Roger is the word for 'R' in the phonetic alphabet and is short for 'Message Received'. A pilot named Roger has more problems than having to hear his name repeatedly. He gets to be nicknamed 'Roger Ramjet', after the cartoon character whose first name came from the 'Roger' that pilots constantly use.

Roger isn't as perplexing as the 'I read you five by' reply to a comm check - 5 by 5 meaning both loudness and clarity rate a '5', highest on the scale. 5 x 2 would mean the signal was strong, but static or other noise made it hard to understand the other person (a 1 would be virtually unintelligible). 2x5 would be faint, but clear (I would suspect that if the loudness rated a 1, the person would respond, "Hello? Hello? Is anybody out there?!" rather than '1 by')

Answer 3

Nope, FAA communcation is between towers,
approach controls and other AIRCRAFT, not people.
That is, they identify themselves by aircraft tail
number, not the person flying.

Occasionally, if there is little else going on, you'll
hear a personal conversation going on, but even
then they'll usually talk in tail numbers.

Even if, by some really strange circumstance,
someone had a tail number of R-O-G-E-R, he
would be identified as Romeo Oscar Gulf Echo
Romeo, not Roger.

Answer 4

I think it's a law that no pilots can be named Roger.

Answer 5

You've never seen "Airplane," have you?