Originally Posted by SoFloFlyer

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