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This tremendously helps international airspace where English is not native. I have once heard Narita tower kept interpreting comm from plane as a statement as o
by unsignedint 10y ago
This tremendously helps international airspace where English is not native. I have once heard Narita tower kept interpreting comm from plane as a statement as opposed to request, until finally other plane clarified the tower that the plane is actually requesting it.
- ethanbond 10y agoProbably a stupid question, but is English the de facto flight control language everywhere? Or is it just the safest fallback between otherwise incompatible language backgrounds?
- Bdiem 10y agoDefacto it is, but spoken with many a accent. Try listening to some for yourself to get a feel for it - http://www.liveatc.net/ http://www.liveatc.net/
- Bdiem 10y agoIt is more the necessity of working around frequency congestion and all those other voice via radio related problems eg ("to","two","victor","vector",unameit) than a convenience change of a good working system. Great read about that "my stetement is meant as a question" topic in the AVWeb Series "Say again". It boils down to "inflection does not work (well) via radio, add 'request' as prefix to your request".