AA767 at Rio de Janeiro Blows Tires, Haters-Gonna-Hates to Gate

Polar742 said:
I doubt aircraft support issues would be my main issue. Mainly getting off of a runway to avoid being landed on.

Obviously, if it's a situation where we need to evacuate, stop, set the brake and commence evacuation.

If the aircraft is in a situation where we don't need to immediately evacuate and would be sitting on a runway for a couple minutes or more, especially in a rush hour or lower wx, I'd vacate the runway to decrease an operational error by ATC.

Offhand, I can't remember if Brazil is one of the offenders, but some countries will speak their local language unless a foreign carrier requires them to speak English. In that case, it's English to us and local language to everyone else.

Hope that clears up where I'm coming from.
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All controllers (ATC is a branch of the air force) at majors airport speak English, however local traffic still uses Portuguese with them. You don't have to request it, make your call in English and they will answer you in English.

ATC got a lot better in the past years, still not that great but again I wouldn't set American ATC as the standard either.
 
swisspilot said:
All controllers (ATC is a branch of the air force) at majors airport speak English, however local traffic still uses Portuguese with them. You don't have to request it, make your call in English and they will answer you in English.

ATC got a lot better in the past years, still not that great but again I wouldn't set American ATC as the standard either.
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So I remembered correctly. I'll go ahead and lump Latin America and Africa in the same general pot for ATC.

While American controllers may not be the standard in your eyes, I have yet to go somewhere in the world that can safely move the volume of metal as ATC does on the Eastern Seaboard.
 
And oddly enough I know of several former U.S. FAA controllers who have gone for the bucks in Sydney and UAE.
 
Polar742 said:
So I remembered correctly. I'll go ahead and lump Latin America and Africa in the same general pot for ATC.

While American controllers may not be the standard in your eyes, I have yet to go somewhere in the world that can safely move the volume of metal as ATC does on the Eastern Seaboard.
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There are some very competent controllers, the problem is the laziness and the ego of many of them. I fly in South America and have to say that generally ATC is still way more professional then most pilots you ear on the frequency.
 
Minuteman said:
That would be supported by the sirens audible in this second video posted to Facebook:
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The question remains of why taxi at all, beyond clearing the active, and especially to the gate. I don't know the logic, which is why I'm wondering what could've been the catalyst for that, with the many aforementioned risk factors involved.
 
If the Capt knew the firetrucks were being scrambled because of an issue with his/her jet and he/she didn't stop then he/she is a fricken idiot. If they were unaware then I can continue to give them a shred of the benefit of the doubt. Do they have that ATC monitoring stuff on the internet down in Brazil like they do in the US?
 
Just send them out for a recap.

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