Why do South Africans say "Foot"?
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Only foot...eish! Can you imagine if we went like the Frogs (Bless Them) and started with: uitnadering - finals, indraaisy - base leg, halfby - initial? its been a while.. and my best for the helo folk, gesaamentlike steek realaar..'all together sexual relations organiser '- better known as the collective pitch lever...
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My donner dis nou lekker om te kak praat...maaar I still be climbing to two thousand voet, foot, sorry feet. Jasis ouens, do you know how high I'm going.
Wait til the Froggies start parlez vousing or the Vietnamese start ignoring you after their.....climb fright revel free free zelo. Or the Chinese in their special way tell you to change frequency wun flee sello flee ate farve.
Ja bliksem, voet, feet....dis nou die ding.
Wait til the Froggies start parlez vousing or the Vietnamese start ignoring you after their.....climb fright revel free free zelo. Or the Chinese in their special way tell you to change frequency wun flee sello flee ate farve.
Ja bliksem, voet, feet....dis nou die ding.
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Carrier.
Many English speaking South Africans are grammatically challenged when they speak "Afrikaans"!
Oh! ...and it seems the same with the UK bound boys with a call sign "SPEEDBIRD" are also grammatically challenged as they will say "We are fully ready"...???? Ready? Fully Ready? Explain??
Just a thought!
Oh! ...and it seems the same with the UK bound boys with a call sign "SPEEDBIRD" are also grammatically challenged as they will say "We are fully ready"...???? Ready? Fully Ready? Explain??
Just a thought!
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Heard the "Fully ready" thing before somewhere. Think it may be a Brit/Euro thing along the lines of being ready to enter the active runway and depart immediately with no lengthy wait while completing additional checklist items. Probably not a bad thing to notify ATC with other traffic waiting behind you and a couple of aircraft on the approach, rather than lining up and causing a couple of wave offs while you trundle through the checklist on the runway.
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Translation
My apologies skychick. It is often humerous to translate directly into afrikaans. In english "Condition levers to flight and complete the descend and approach checklist" You had to be there!?