Does VFR Operation Require A High Level Of Language Proficiency?

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On Oct 9, 2:29 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Larry Dighera wrote
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Does VFR Operation Require A High Level Of Language Proficiency?
It looks like some in Europe would think it might:

IAOPA WINS LANGUAGE REPRIEVE
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...974-full.html#
196325
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The International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has
successfully lobbied the International Civil Aviation
Organization
(ICAO) to delay by three years implementation of onerous language
proficiency rules it says would severely limit VFR flight in
much of Europe. Under the ICAO proposal, all pilots would
require to demonstrate a high level of proficiency in either
English or the language of the country in which they are
flying. In an interview with AVweb at AOPA Expo in Hartford,
IAOPA General Secretary John Sheehan said the rule makes sense
for IFR operations but not for recreational flyers. "For VFR
people it doesn't make any sense," Sheehan said. "I don't think
[VFR] requires a high level of [language] proficiency."

Given the US's provision for NORDO VFR operations, that has
probably been in the regulations since their inception, one can
only conclude that VFR operation doesn't even require any
communication at all.

oes this mean that MXS wil have to display proficiency in gibberish
since he lives in cloud cuckoo land?

If so, mission accomplished.

Bertie- Hide quoted text -

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He lives in France not Switzerland, and besides MX is using south
gibberish and in cuckoo land they use main stream gibberish. Everybody
knows that.



Oops, my bad.


Bertie