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Old Dec 21, 2015 | 11:41 pm
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Originally Posted by LarryJ
Mexico. ATC communications are in Spanish with Spanish-speaking pilots and English with everyone else.
I was really scared listening to Channel 9 approaching PVG. Not only the Chinese ATC talk to the Chinese pilots in Chinese, they also used metric. That is just a bad bad idea in my mind....

Even between Taiwan and Mainland, where the official language is both Chinese Mandarin, the ATC language is different and requires a cross-reference: http://www.ivaocn.org/cn_events/2009..._and_TW_SI.pdf
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