]An American pilot said controllers sometimes can he heard over the air speaking in Portuguese, rather than in English, the standard language used by controllers worldwide, making it difficult to determine whom the controller is talking to.[/COLOR]
This has been my bugbear for a long time. Why is it not possible for ALL R/T to be in English - worldwide
I do a lot (actually most) of my flying in non-English speaking countries and am always appalled by calls being made in Spanish, French, Italian.... thankfully I speak a few languages, and this has already saved my - and others' - bacon a couple of times. Do these crews and controllers not realize that they deprive non-native speakers of situational awareness ??