Originally Posted by
Wasatch Phantom
Completely agree! Thank you for the detailed explanation.
Gotta admit putting myself in the newbie F/O's shoes I'd feel awful. I'm glad "cooler heads prevailed".
Having flown in Russia (during my 727 days) Russian controllers mastery of the English language is marginal at best. Add in the metric altimetry and everything else going on and the poor guy was set up for failure.
In my original post I said that after reading his post, I was all geared up for CQ. But, then I remembered that I always get A periods, so I edited it. It was a good post, but not THAT good.
