Originally Posted by
172driver
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 ??
I suposse that the thing is that if you´re over a country that has 300 local flights, i.e. in Brazil, they sure are going to speak brazilian between ATC and pilots, and if there is one or more foreign flights over, they are going to inform to this flights surely in english whenever the situation has to do with them. It´s nosense to speak all them in english, Can you imagine the chaos?, as they are non native to this language.