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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
Maxwell writes:
I think we can all rest assured teach the world to speak understandable English is not a long term problem. Everything will be going to Spanish in a few years anyway. Very little will be going to Spanish any time soon. While many people speak Spanish in some parts of the world, the geographic distribution is not very even, and the countries that speak the language primarily are not that influential. And don't forget Brazil. |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
... Maxwell writes: I think we can all rest assured teach the world to speak understandable English is not a long term problem. Everything will be going to Spanish in a few years anyway. Very little will be going to Spanish any time soon. Out of touch with current events? |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
On Jun 29, 4:39 am, "El Maximo" wrote:
Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?" Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English." Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?" What is interesting is that in Mexico and parts of South America, the controllers speak Spanish with local (or domestic) flights, and english with international flights. KB. |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:43:47 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:
the geographic distribution is not very even, and the countries that speak the language primarily are not that influential. About 1/4 of the Dallas cable TV channels are in Spanish. http://tinyurl.com/ytw6cx Sábado Gigante ya'll! -- Dallas |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
K Baum wrote:
What is interesting is that in Mexico and parts of South America, the controllers speak Spanish with local (or domestic) flights, and english with international flights. That was my experience flying into Cuba. -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
What is interesting is that in Mexico and parts of South America, the controllers speak Spanish with local (or domestic) flights, and english with international flights. KB. This matches with what I experienced recently. I was on the ground aboard a United passenger flight from Brazil to the USA and listening to the onboard channel 9 ATC to kill time. Except for the United and a Lufthansa pilot also awaiting clearance to taxi, every other pilot was talking Portuguese. The controllers spoke perfect ATC English but switched to Portuguese for the local pilots. I was thinking this could easily lead to a lack of situational awareness in a large airport like Sao Paulo's. It was interesting that even at the local Brazilian FBO, there was no CFI who spoke English even though the Brazilian requirements include a proficiency requirement in English! |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
El Maximo writes:
Out of touch with current events? No. If you're travelling worldwide, the best language to know is English, followed by French. Spanish would be in third place. |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
Dallas writes:
About 1/4 of the Dallas cable TV channels are in Spanish. As hard as it may be for residents of the city to accept, there is more to the world outside of Dallas. |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
On Jun 29, 4:39 am, "El Maximo" wrote:
"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in messagenews Matthias van Henk wrote: As more and more aviation business is operated from Asia and Chinese is the most spoken language in the world all communication should be made in Chinese then. :-) If Won Wing Low had been the Father of Aviation, it could have been! -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com Allegedly, a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following: Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?" Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English." Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?" Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war." The other version I"ve heard was an American flight had just landed and was read a really fast taxi clearance. Apparently the pilot didn't respond quickly. ATC: "What's wrong with you haven't you been here before" Pilot: "Once in 1943 but I didn't stop" -Robert |
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