Air Force flight in Mideast uses call sign ‘Pickle Rick’

Air Force flight in Mideast uses call sign ‘Pickle Rick’ in apparent nod to ‘Rick and Morty’

An Air Force KC-10 Extender that flew out of Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday used the call sign “PIKLRICK” on a mission that saw it fly east over the Gulf of Oman, according to flight-tracking data. The KC-10A is an aircraft that refuels warplanes in flight.

Sounds like someone was having a bit of fun. Too bad the Air Force told them to knock it off.

How often does this sort of thing happen and it go unnoticed? Or are they supposed to stick with certain call signs?

I did a little google fu and found the flight on flightaware.

Flight Aware PIKLRICK



Enjoy.

a reply to: grey580

Lmao well played here 🤣

a reply to: grey580

I love Rick and Mortey first of all so bonus points for the call sign...but I can't ignore the irony that in military aviation Pickle was a term used for calling out that you've dropped some bombs! So all around solid call sign and the air force needs to lighten up lol!

a reply to: grey580

Danny Trejo is the best part of that episode

Solenya...

Was there another call sign like "Jaguar" around?

a reply to: grey580

There are a lot of really odd, but oddly fitting callsigns flying around. Not necessarily from Rick and Morty, but still appropriate to the aircraft. I see at least three or four weird ones a day.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
There are a lot of really odd, but oddly fitting callsigns flying around. Not necessarily from Rick and Morty, but still appropriate to the aircraft. I see at least three or four weird ones a day.

Here's an old one...

E-4B Nightwatch with Emperor Palpatine's star wars "order 66". I had to get a screenshot.

Notables are Vader, Anakin, Eddie, Hagar, Club 22, Quake, Doom.... big list, but certain bases tend to use them repeatedly.

My all time ADS-B favorites was TATER 1 and 2 out of Wichita in T-38s mixing it up with some F-16s from Louisiana or Mississippi, both of those guys stayed on those Falcons for nearly 30 minutes before breaking off.

a reply to: StratosFear

I've seen HEFTY, UHAUL, FRED, NASCAR, BULLY, EMPTY, XRAY, BLCKWFE, SUMO, MOOSE and a bunch of others.

Just a bit ago, not racist... but if you didn't know what a Chinook was.

a reply to: Bigburgh

Brand new or refurbished CH-47 out of Mesa.

There's currently a C-5 circuit bashing with the callsign WOOHOO35.