Cockpit Chronicles: Nearly a near midair collision

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11-17-2010 @ 10:08PM

Juan I said...

Hi kent, nice blog! I live in Neuquén, a patagonian city in Argentina and I hope to learn to fly in the first months of 2011. Have you ever had to fly to Buenos Aires?

I read in yours articles about the bad level of english that have some south american traffic controllers and i think that the reason is that here is more popular and easy to study british english than north american. The british speaks and pronounce slowly than US people.

I went to USA in July and was shocked on how you fly there, everywhere you look there are airplanes! is very quiet here compared to United States! Is it difficult and requires a lot of concentration fly in a so busy airspace?

Blue Skies,
Juan I

11-17-2010 @ 10:13PM

Kent Wien said...

Hi Juan,

Most of the Central and South American cities we fly to have excellent controllers. We just had a new guy probably in that Panama City post I did. Their English is certainly much better than my Spanish.

I haven't been down to BA. I would LOVE to fly there though.

It doesn't take long to get used to the busy traffic. Something you get used to, really.

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