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~~That's the flight management computer, it does waypoint navigation/autopilot. As far as I know it doesn't do chat to other planes. So all fake~~
See reply, I am wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS
Apparently it is a thing, but I don't know how long the messages can be or what they "usually" look like, nor do I trust these screenshots.
The twitter user is an actual commercial pilot, and ACARS messages do look like that. Not sure what's up with SKW2438/SKY2438 but otherwise it seems legit. I think faking it would be harder than actually doing this.
Edit: Here's a picture of a much longer message in a more professional, non furry rp context:
Pretty sure ACARS doesn't include [X is typing] messages
That is a good point.
Except that that might explain the slightly different alias on that line. Maybe it's a message just like the rest, sent for the sake of the meme, and the alias just happened to get typed incorrectly...