Time for a new certificate

jynxyjoe said:
Native speakers won't need anything but two dollars, agreed. Foreign carriers will have to do it for real. At least that is the hope.

How about at NY center when controllers give some of our select Asian carriers 15-30 seconds leadup on vectors because it is going to take that long to translate the message and repeat.

My favorite that I heard was "XXXX hold short of 4 left."
"We.. uhhh, cross 4 left?"
"No, hold short of 4 left."
"Roger, no hold short."
few seconds later.
"XXXX why are you crossing 4 left! I just told you to hold short"
"You said, no hold short!"
"No, I said 'No, hold short'"
"Right, no hold short."

From what i understand there was a rash of this at JFK for months I just heard one of them.
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Oh man, It's hard to type when the tears are so thick from laughing! That was good. I taught Taiwanese students who were pretty good pilots but sounded like they're tongues were frozen on the radio. Because of that, I wouldn't solo them until they could at least make an clear call at saying words with the letter "r".
 
Ok, the FAA statement includes the following:

The ability to read, speak, write, and understand English is already a U.S. regulatory eligibility requirement; the FAA Registry began issuing all new certificates with this endorsement on February 11, 2008. The U.S. has notified ICAO that it filed a difference that will extend the U.S. compliance date until March 5, 2009, in order to provide sufficient time for all affected U.S. airman certificate holders to comply with the ICAO Language Proficiency airman certificate endorsement requirements.
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So does this mean we have until 2009 for international flying now?
 
I'm not doing a dang thing until I get an official pub from the company on the subject. :) No communication yet... no action from me.

(I did walk into the CP's office the other day and talk to them about it to clarify since "read and speak the english language" is a requirement for the license in the first place (run on sentence). They said we had to get new certificates but there's a waiver in place already since it was dropped so quickly on the airlines. I'm looking forward to the wonderful memo that is coming).
 
We were told we needed them yesterday and that if we didn't have these new licences then the Federales in Mexico would pick us up and put us in a federal pound you in the butt prision, then as soon as I ordered mine and got it we got another FIL that said we were being given a year.
 
Go figure they charge for the license...

I thought we were all required to read, speak and write english? maybe I'm wrong:crazy:
 
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