A good friend of mine is english and he is flying in Portugal, but he speaks portuguese You just need to speak the local language.
And no english is not the OACI language
your friend is the exception to the rule. I never said it cant happen, its just rare!
And no you are wrong my friend, english IS the ICAO language. How do you not know this??? I thought you were a pilot? Why do you think asian conutries force all their pilots to learn english. Why do you think german pilots etc etc have to learn english to fly. Maybe things are a bit different down in old portugal. But look it up in a book or even google it, English is most definately the official flying language.
Nobody in here blames the US pilot but the Irish authority and gvnt to allow that
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riiiiiight!......as opposed to iceland who validates forgein licenses? Dubai? Hong Kong? India? china, korea, many asian countries etc etc. Do you know anything about flying or are u just a disgruntled wannabe who cant get a job?