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I had a sort-of hobby of learning and listening to ATC at one point. Some of these guys were scary-unintelligible . I remember this Chinese ATC at some major ai
by user3939382 4y ago
I had a sort-of hobby of learning and listening to ATC at one point. Some of these guys were scary-unintelligible . I remember this Chinese ATC at some major airport saying as fast as he possibly could “clah de leh” which was supposed to be “Clear to land”. It’s amazing the system works as well as it does.
- thaw239847 4y agoHaving accent is not the same as being "unintelligible". Do you know how to say "Clear to land" in Chinese?
- rmccue 4y agoWorth keeping in mind that recordings of ATC are taken from people running ground stations, which may not have perfect line-of-sight to the transmitter at the airport, so recordings can be lower quality and more garbled than what the pilots are actually hearing.
- user3939382 4y agoTotally true, although the examples I was contemplating are like in a sibling comment to yours, where even the pilots are confused. I think a lot of pilots would agree that there’s room for improvement in diction with ATC. And of course not for the sake of aesthetics or something but for safety.
- martopix 4y agoI cannot find the video right now, but there was a widely watched one exactly as you describe, where the controller issued a 'cletala' several times, and it was a very American controller, I believe in California. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picf7sPEhi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picf7sPEhi8