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Originally Posted by flynavyj
When did freedom stop speaking english?
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About Nov of last year when we were still losing about 70 pilots a month and everyone was hiring like crazy... there was nobody to hire
but non-english speaking pilots. Not saying that they are not good pilots, some are! Just saying, we hired 'em when that's all there was out in the pool...
As far as the incursion thing, remember the ASA one last year in ATL where DAL had to rotate early and missed 'em by a wingspan? That one turned out to have some degree of controller fault for not issuing standard terminology to ASA if I recall correctly. As far as standard radio phraseology goes, I have NEVER heard more crap come from a controller than at JFK. Now, this may be because I have never been to LGA, I don't know how they are over there. BUT, JFK controllers have dirty mouths, bad attitudes and I hear 'em with the radio chat back and forth ALL THE DING DONG TIME. Bad JFK, BAD BAD BAD!
Those F8 pilots could very well have been issued a clearance to cross 22R on J- I have gotten this clearance a couple of times while still rolling out on 22L! There is a hot spot at that intersection for a reason- and this just reinforces it. LOOK OUT YOUR DANG WINDOW, CLEAR THE RUNWAY BEFORE CROSSING. I hope never to make that mistake, but in the past I have been very cautious about crossing and will continue to be so. What's the rush anyhow? It's NY!!!