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Old Jul 30, 2009 | 8:45 pm
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Yaatri
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Originally Posted by ClimbGuy
I spoke with an ATCer at the Udvar-Hazy museum. English is the offical langauge for all ATC. All controllers need to speak English. That said as was previously mentioned if an Air France plan is flying into CDG odds are they will speak in French.

I don't know anyting about the metric unit thing, I'll ask next time I am there.
English sounds the same in metric too. Come to think of it, if you can understand a lnguage, you can understand it in metric too.
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