On Feb 26, 12:41*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in news:6307c716-4cc2-423c-ac9f-
:

On Feb 26, 10:03*am, Larry Dighera wrote:
. *It's ICAO that is making the requirement, not FAA. *FAA is
moving fast to provide US airmen with ICAO compliant certificates. *Or
maybe I'm seeing the big picture either.

And how does putting "English Proficient" on the certificate of Air
China pilots change anything when they are already required to meet
that requirement.

They aren;t. They will be. English is not the only aviation language!

In the US it is and the Dateline news story is about the China Air
pilot who got confused at JFK (hense my reference to China Air).