English Proficiency of Foreign Pilots... Scary?

just wondering what is IATA?

It would be scary if I am on the short final and this dude pull his plane onto runway. I would be
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So the question is, do you sign them off for checkrides when they have real difficulty speaking a required language?
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It's a big problem, especially when they never practice their english unless they are in the airplane. Other than that, they speak chinese as much as possible.. including during ESL classes...

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That's just arrogance/indifference to training. Were I an instructor at such a program, I'd make a rule with my students that anyone caught speaking something other than English while in the program gets to contribute toward a beer fund or something.
 
It wouldn't be so bad if it were just an accent. There are several times this month alone I have heard foreign a/c @ LAX that simply didn't understand what was being said! I followed behind a China Eastern MD-11 where it was necessary to repeat the same thing over and over with each transmission. The Approach guy sounded like he was talking to a 2 yr old. Once on ground, they were asked a question and all they replied with was "Roger". They obviously didn't get what was being asked by their tranmissions.
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Ground basically cleared the way for them all the way to the south complex as it was apparent they barely had a clue between the entire crew. Another time my Capt told me about an Aeroflot flight. The controller kept giving him instructions, but he did not understand. He got to the runway and pretty much told the tower, 'we take off now' and proceeded to do it! Needless to say tower figured this guy might not do as requested so they told everyone else to give way to Aeroflot. He went on his merry way and departed
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Does anyone know how to get some good live feeds from European airports, preferrably in Germany?

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I got my German PPL when I lived there. One of the things I had to learn was that it is technically illegal to listen to any ATC frequency if you're not directly involved in the communications. It's basically unenforceable because they can't track reception...unless you're streaming it to the web. It's a somewhat silly law if you ask me.
 
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