“ABC News reported on Wednesday that teams equipped with radiological sensors were patrolling Boston amid a possible ‘dirty bomb’ threat, but local police said they had no information.”Reuters (January 19, 2005)
You can file these in the remarks section of your flight plan, or for better effect, use them as your callsign! From the FAA rulebook:
- SAMP – Airborne radiation sampling aircraft
- FLYNET – Aircraft transporting Nuclear Emergency Search Team
- SCOOT – Aircraft evacuating high-ranking government official
- NAOC – National Airborne Operations Center (aka “Night Watch,” “President’s doomsday plane”)
- GARDEN PLOT – classified (related to military suppression of civil uprising inside U.S.)
- LIFEGUARD – Flight has life-or-death priority
- OSY – OPEN SKIES Russian treaty observation aircraft (obsolete)

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