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TenguNoHi
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 Posted: Mar 12, 2005 - 04:31 AM
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International competitions and exercises that the US and other countries participate in, and for that matter, cooperative combat missions in real life? What fufills the communication gap between our air force and other air forces? Obviously a group of French pilots would have a hard time talking to a group of American pilots right? I always wondered about this...
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LinkF16SimDude
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Posted: Mar 12, 2005 - 05:24 AM
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English was designated aviation's "official lanquage" many years ago. Most (but not all) foreign pilots, if they deploy internationally, will have decent to fair English skills. Enough to understand and be understood when conversing with other pilots. The REALLY sharp ones will be completely fluent in English. If it's a US-allied air force, sometimes the foreign guys will also go to Lackland AFB (I think it's Lackland) for instruction in English so that they'll have that skill if and when needed.
I ran many sim sessions with a number of Dutch student pilots in early 1990's and occassionally tried my mediocre Dutch on 'em. Although they appreciated the effort, they just laughed and told me to speak English. "Look...it's easier for you, it's easier for us, and we hate hearing our mother tounge butchered like that!"   Cool bunch of guys indeed! |
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