Amusing ACARS entry

[nwafan20]

I was searching in ACARS and ran across this, I thought some of you might enjoy it:

ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: N901FR [Airbus A319]
Message label: 81 Block id: 5 Msg no: M09A
Flight id: F90530 [MDW-DEN] [Frontier Airlines]
Message content:-
DISP,MSG ACK,DOG IS TOASTY,,,,,,

[N790SW]

Hey how does this ACARS work anyways? and yess that is amusing =]

[nwafan20]

Well ACARS stands for Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System, it is basically a digital datalink system to transfer communications between the aircraft and ground. So, say you need to call up base to tell them something, instead of them having a separate frequency, you can just send it via ACARS. Does that make sense? I'm a bit sleepy..

It is actually a very useful and versatile system

So if we look at the message from his ACARS (uggh, im a bit sleepy, just noticed I wrote TCAS last night... corrected):

Message content:-
DISP,MSG ACK,DOG IS TOASTY,,,,,,

Most likely he is saying: Dispatch, message acknowledged, dog is toasty.

[N790SW]

Well ACARS stands for Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System, it is basically a digital datalink system to transfer communications between the aircraft and ground. So, say you need to call up base to tell them something, instead of them having a separate frequency, you can just send it via ACARS. Does that make sense? I'm a bit sleepy..

It is actually a very useful and versatile system

So if we look at the message from his TCAS:

Message content:-
DISP,MSG ACK,DOG IS TOASTY,,,,,,

Most likely he is saying: Dispatch, message acknowledged, dog is toasty.

Yeaa, this makes more sense now, where can you dowload this feature?

[Matt Molnar]

http://www.ACARSD.org

[SmAlbany]

So the real question is: What does 'dog is toasty' mean.

By the look of this picture: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1175610/L/

Dog looks quite a bit chilly :lol:

[NYCMedic]

If I'm not mistaken the A319 has heat in the aft bin, so the msg is probably confirming that the heat is on in the bin and there was a dog loaded in the bin.

[hiss srq]

You are correct about the 319.

[SengaB]

I have heard a lot of messages on it...even flirting messages on it.
Sports scores
Toilet pressure levels
Making hotel reseravtions
vulgarities
failed aircraft parts
sarcasm/jokes
Where to diversions
Holding
etc

[cancidas]

it's basically like a company frequency, but discrete and not range limited.

[lijk604]

This message could mean that they were worried about the dog. I know a lot of carriers restrict flying dogs in the summer due to the horrible things that have happened in the past. Maybe they had a long ground delay getting out of Chicago and they wanted to make sure the area where the dog was kept was opened IMMEDIATELY upon arrival.