Originally Posted by
onedolla
Now this has the makings of a good story. Can you tell us more? I can’t believe any captain (or you) would fly through red on the radar, and it’s hard to imagine SJO has gotten rid of English speaking controllers…
SJO was sitting in a “bowl” with weather all around. We did fly through some junk coming in and initiated a go-around.
Do the controllers speak English? Kinda. Enough to give vectors. You end up doing something unexpected like a go-around and they start to fumble some words. Definitely made a stressful situation even more stressful.
The CA was awesome and experienced so it was fine, but I could only imagine a new CA handling that situation. Definitely have to know what you’re doing.
Not that exciting lol