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I'm afraid you're the one who is wrong. Yes, when a common language is needed, it is English, but native languages are explicitly allowed by EU law.
by _moof 5y ago
I'm afraid you're the one who is wrong. Yes, when a common language is needed, it is English, but native languages are explicitly allowed by EU law.
- smachiz 5y agoCommon language is always needed - this is CDG, a large airport with many flights. It is important that all planes have situational awareness. If half are speaking French, how does the pilot coming from Seoul have situational awareness? What if he's sitting on the runway and doesn't know that the ATC just gave clearance to land in French to a pilot on the runway he's currently on? ATC and pilots for commercial airlines should only be speaking English, regardless of their native tongue and where they are. It's pretty important - and it is actually EU law: https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/29531/air-traffic-controller-pilot-lingua-franca-must-be-english-even-if-both-are-spanish-says-eu-rule https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/29531/air-traffic-cont... Unfortunately it only applies to airports with 50k international flights per year - the bar should be much lower than that. But of course, CDG qualifies.
- hef19898 5y agoSituational awareness in controlled air space comes to a large degree from air traffic control. Not from listening to communicatiom between traffic control and other planes.
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