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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: Amante de Aviones on January 09, 2008, 02:29:32 AM
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Over the Winter holidays i was in puerto Vallarta for a week. While in MMPR i used my scanner and heard a mexicana Pilot talking to the tower in english. I wondered if they do this often or just for safety because i know they use spanish for ATC in Mexico.
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Over the Winter holidays i was in puerto Vallarta for a week. While in MMPR i used my scanner and heard a mexicana Pilot talking to the tower in english. I wondered if they do this often or just for safety because i know they use spanish for ATC in Mexico.
For the most, English is the standard language for ATC. But if the pilot isn't fluent enough in it (in a non-English speaking country), ATC can speak to them in their native language. I've heard French ATC speak in French to French pilots, but actually speak better English to English-speaking pilots from the US!
But the ICAO holds the authority over that, and they are looking over revising their standards to make the English comprehension even more strict.
BL.
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I've noticed that in Amsterdam the Dutch pilots often use Dutch for chatter and English for traffic information relevant to all planes, confirm ATC instructions in English, etc.
*Chatter in Dutch about the mechanical state of a plane*... KL1311 will hold at P1