Originally Posted by
Airbubba
Well the local accent in DEL is hard for many of us to understand. As you know, the Punjabis make fun of the way Keralites speak, we have similar different regional dialects in the U.S. I've had problems in the UK understanding a controller with a Fen accent. If I get those yankee boys at JFK and EWR to slow down, I can understand some of what they say.
The Kuwaitis have been flying to DEL for decades, unless the captain was a newly hired expat, he would have been to DEL many times.
Many U.S. pilots would not know port from starboard if they did not have some nautical background, I doubt if those words are in any FAA publications. Of course, hopefully they would know left from right...
I seem to remember the RCAF had a very good way of remembering the association between PORT and LEFT, for use when doing joint ops with the navy,
You just remember why you went flying, there was NO PORT LEFT!
cheers,
ve3id