Bubbers44,
Were you saying you were denied SA because of the bilingual comms or not? From what I read, you had enough info to maintain SA throughout...?
You're assuming that the Spanish speaking controller cleared him for the approach but how do you know the other aircraft didn't bust his altitude and then the controller fixed it in Spanish? Had he said it in English, would you have relaxed your SA now that you "knew what was going on"? You see what I'm getting at?
It sounds as if all non-English speaking controllers are incompetent and trying to kill you with traffic speaking another language. You speak as if you need to understand all that's going on so you can save yourself from their incompetence. Meanwhile, in Britain, the USA or western Canada, everything is safe because it's all in English? Is it only non-English speakers that bust their cleared altitude? Do you think that because an altitude was given and read-back that the traffic you're now ignoring will stop below you?
The problem is not with bilingual comms. It has everything to do with the arrogance of
a few pilots. Most are doing just fine trusting the work of the controller while keeping enough wits about them to detect mistakes from either side of the mike.
