Victory Day 2018

Stone Cold

Stone Cold

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Today's festivities... So, apparently the helos went down the center of the road like I was expecting. The jets and jet props not so much. Time for some beverages with hundreds of thousands of my best friends!

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Russia builds a lot of cool planes. As a pilot you have to love the Tu-95 and the B-1ski, er Tu-160. Maybe I just like Tupolev.
 
Pretty cool pictures. I'm curious, do you speak English or Russian when you're operating over there, or should I say, when you did operate over there? I took 4 years of Russian and can only say, "My name is Erik." Do not ask me to spell it.
 
EIR said:
Pretty cool pictures. I'm curious, do you speak English or Russian when you're operating over there, or should I say, when you did operate over there? I took 4 years of Russian and can only say, "My name is Erik." Do not ask me to spell it.
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We speak English during operations. All of aviation, except a few places, require English as the main language. There are some places in Russia that require Russian speakers on board though. Also, I'm technically still operating here for another 17 days. ;)

There are quite a few English speakers here amongst the Russians main population, but when you go to Siberia, and other places, it's pretty much all Russian. I've learned the basics, but can't hold a full conversation in Russian. I've tried, but never could conquer the language.
 
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Stone Cold said:
We speak English during operations. All of aviation, except a few places, require English as the main language. There are some places in Russia that require Russian speakers on board though. Also, I'm technically still operating here for another 17 days. ;)

There are quite a few English speakers here amongst the Russians main population, but when you go to Siberia, and other places, it's pretty much all Russian. I've learned the basics, but can't hold a full conversation in Russian. I've tried, but never could conquer the language.
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I've heard stories of people trying to go to some more remote airports and having to arrive between certain hours so that "the guy that speaks English" is there.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
I've heard stories of people trying to go to some more remote airports and having to arrive between certain hours so that "the guy that speaks English" is there.
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There are airports that say specifically on the charts that a Russian pilot, or a Russian speaker must be on board. I don't remember off the top of my head which ones, but they're out there.
 
DE727UPS said:
Maybe they should put something useful in our Long Range Nav recurrent like how to say "I'm on fire" in Russian...
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It may help. These airports I'm talking about are usually smaller ones or joint use military base type airports. If you cuss enough, you'll get your point across. Everybody knows the F word...

Edit to add: all of the high altitude and medium altitude controllers speak English, so they'd coordinate for you in an absolute emergency like a fire, I'd hope...
 
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BigZ said:
I can spell that for y'all in Louisianish
"Ya go roux"
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Ok, and then they say "state souls and fuel on board, what is your request?" Or even "clear to land" in Russian. What does our entrepid crew that's on fire say then? How do they know what was asked? That's why I said hopefully there's coordination going on.
 
Stone Cold said:
Ok, and then they say "state souls and fuel on board, what is your request?" Or even "clear to land" in Russian. What does our entrepid crew that's on fire say then? How do they know what was asked? That's why I said hopefully there's coordination going on.
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No offense :)
on the serious note, I was teaching a Naryanmar ATC dude to fly. ICAO lv.4 went only as far as his immediate duties. Good dude, but we had to play some serious catchup on his verbal skills
 
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