Working with foreign students
 

I've had a lot interesting experiances working with foreign students, mainly Chinese and Japanese. Just wondering if anyone else has advice or experiances to share?

Yeah, a full house beats a frush.:D

You went there. "clear prop" always sounds like "queer prop":rolleyes:

Everytime I fly over the india fix of V3 in Florida... there is always Indian people talking to Orlando approach..very ironic... and as always they are asking permission to go VFR to another airport, followed by some other weird request.
Closer to DAB it seems like only the controllers speak English...

if you are in san diego area there are a lot of indian flying everywhere.the other day I was flying and this guy comes over the frequency asking for help to get back to his airport ....the controller asked him where he was and the guy said.....I DON'T KNOW....controller....do you see the ground??.....pilot ...what???...controller....do you see the ground???? pilot...ok going to ground...and he changed frequencies and we didn't hear from him againg...the controller went...to all aircraft in the east practice area there is a plane without radio comm with us please be carefull...I could not stop laughing...

Patience is key, and as hard as it is, you have to keep your cool. I only trained a few German guys as PPL's, nothing commercial, but I knew of some folks down the road that had to.

I had a student, who when we were doing pattern work would respond to the tower's calls by nodding his head. The first couple times I responded for him, and told him he needed to push the PTT and respond verbally. When he persisted with his head nodding, I let the tower get on him a bit and told him he needed to nod louder next time. Eventually he figured it out.

Just remember to make sure they get their TSA clearance before you even let them look at a plane funny!

make sure they understand not to land at a air force base. For some reason they like to do that out here in Oklahoma