Lucifer
Would you please click on the following links,as I think they're -coul be - an eye-opener to a lot of PPruners.The estimated cost of translation and interpretation is,as you said ENORMOUS but it required to be better known.
ibeurope.com/Database/Factsheets/F048lang.htm
http://europa.eu.int
I just played a game which was to erase the french-originated words of one paragraph of your latst post and it now reads like this :
"we should be the that allows us to drop so early and does not teach it early in when can be".
I agree with the rest of your post.
Crash1
I would be really interested in having the details and date of the incident you refrer to and whether you filed a report.
Mind you,I for one am all for an all-english ATC/RT procedure in all international airports,but face it ,we shall have to get IFALPA on this and in the mean time,we shall have to bear with language idiosyncracies from all over the world,including the US...
Regards