Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)

"Snowbird" wrote in message
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"Mxsmanic" wrote

and they all speak perfect english

Germans who speak perfect English are extremely rare.

Not in WWII movies. Many Tsherman aviators speak it very well, some with
chummy British public school accents.


Not among aviators. Not as regards aviation language.

Anyway, Englishmen who speak perfect German are even rarer.

Depends on what you mean by perfect German. I was in Schulenburg the other
day eating barbecue, and the two old guys I was dining with, local farmers,
was a'sprachen it right smart. Up in West Station, at Pareya's pool hall
and domino parlor, I've relatives who speak Czech and English in the same
sentence, quicker and better after 6 or 7 pivos. Out at SPJST Cottonwood,
why they even sing in Czech.

As an old Carrier Air Intercept Controller, on NATO exercises, I had to be
prepared to control any Western language or fragments thereof and possess
enough Russian obscenities to shout at snoopers.

TMO