That clip reminds me of a time I flew with a Japanese pilot from his base in Nytabaru to my base at Iwakuni. As we started talking to Iwakuni approach - this Japanese pilot was having a very hard time understanding the American controllers instructions and at one point started to turn the wrong way until I chimed in. It was finally resolved when a Japanese controller controller came on freq and gave a quick burst of instructions in Japanese and then all was smooth from 10 miles out and lined up with the runway.

Second point was a recent flight with my squadron's new Spanish exchange pilot. He was riding backseat on a maintenance check flight. These can invilve quite a bit of time on the ground going through a lot of checks. He had already hooked up to O2 and was on *hot mike* for the entore time. Twice I asked him to go "cold mike" and his reply was much like this student's in the video - " Yes - cold mike" but then never changed the switch position!

Well....all I know is that both did much better than I would ever do in their shoes since I hardly know a word of Japanese or Spanish!

USMCFLYR