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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 report...

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 Cherpi...

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 pers...

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'?:...

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 t...

How's that for an informed, intelligent, well-reasoned contribution to the discussion, and complete with full documentary evidence too!...

A clarification re "English is the international language of air traffic control": It is not ordinary everyday English that is used. The FAA requires that a strictly limited set of 335 English phrase...