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In addition to what others have said about the quality, pilots and air traffic controllers communicate using a very restricted vocabulary. They aren’t having fr
by rafram 3y ago
In addition to what others have said about the quality, pilots and air traffic controllers communicate using a very restricted vocabulary. They aren’t having free-flowing conversations - ATC issues commands using what’s essentially a spoken domain-specific language, and pilots echo them back. Accent should not be a major issue.
- shmeeed 3y agoIt shouldn't, but it has been many times in the past, OTOH in particular with Spanish speaking pilots or ATC miscommunicating. Given that JAL516 was a domestic flight, it probably was not the case here though.