You know you're in Latin America when........
Ok, here's my shot:
When you hear/make a PAN or MAYDAY call on 121.5 and the controller says "Standby"
You know all your crewmembers by first name 99% of the time
When:
- ...You wish you earn more money than your neigbor thinks you earn.
- ...When your wife thinks you have 3 or 4 girlfriends within the airline, not just one.
- ...when you fought with management to have a single room for each crewmember for rest on layovers, but the crew ends up sleeping in just half of them.
When ATC descend you to 4,000ft AGL at the FAF for the ILS and they expect you to comply with the glideslope.
When clearance delivery spends three nanoseconds to transmit a long clearance (mexico) and expects you to read it back in two nanoseconds more.
lots of ICAO level 6 crewmembers (in the land of the blind, the one eyed is king).
When landing in a short short runway doesn't even raise you an eyebrow.
When going first time to a new short runway you ask "Has someone already been there in this type of aircraft"? is part of the briefing.
You can really fly a visual approach in any transport category airplane.
The girls in the back know without asking how do you like your coffee.
Whatever happens in the company christmas party is the only thing that carries a conversation all year long... until the next christmas party of course.
when you hear everybody chatting and saying hello and talking politics in the app/ctr frequency and the controller also participates. (Venezuela).
When you see the same airline operating side by side a 2008 A320 and a 1966 F-27