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• Commented on What goes on between Air China pilots and control towers around the world?
  And just to keep you all up-to-date on communication problems with control towers due to insufficient English, here is another one involving Polish pilots with LOT, this time at London/Heathrow reported on June 12: [a href]http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article411652 3.ece[/a]...
• Commented on What goes on between Air China pilots and control towers around the world?
  To nanheyangrouchuan: You are wrong when you write: >Esperanto is entirely based off European languages and communication patterns This might appear so at first sight, but a careful checking of Cherpillod's Konciza Etimologia Vortaro [2003] will reveal very many non...
• Commented on What goes on between Air China pilots and control towers around the world?
  A colleague has just drawn my attention to an article "Misfunctional FAA Phraseology" by Kent Jones with some very specific examples of potential sources of confusion in communication between ATC personnel and pilots: [a href]http://www.esperanto-sat.info/article351.html[/a] I am convinced that native-speakers...
• Commented on Your chance to be an Olympic torch bearer!
  Can't this decision to permit only English be construed as linguistic discrimination, and a clear violation of Article 2 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which specifically includes 'language'?: >Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and...
• Commented on What goes on between Air China pilots and control towers around the world?
  Thanks, Expat pilot, for the additional personal evidence that there IS indeed a language problem in air traffic control which has not been solved just by declaring English "the" language. Thank God that there have so far not been more...