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How do you post a PDF file? Not a link but the actual PDF. I haven't tried the "upload file" button because I'm not exactly sure if that does what it says.

 

125KB is a bit low. Most of the PDF's I have in mind are multiple MB's. Oh well.

The PDF you posted is historically interesting in the context of today's Justice Department. I think things might have turned out different if Eric Holder had been in charge. Plus Oregon and California are the native stomping grounds for eco-warriors as any farmer in the San Joaquin valley would tell you.

 

of course you wouldn't have been hired, and I would remind all that Mr. Bush did not wholesale replace all the federal appointees who were Democrat when he took office, he is/was a very straight up character, and we all miss him whether or not we realize it??? the Affordable care act is an obamanation, as is Benghazi, IRS targeting TEA Party ad infiniteum???

I lost my Hospice JOBS, yes all three of them, due to the re-write of Medicare guidelines set forth by the BHO team, to add insult to injury, I had to pay a 153.00 fine to the federal govt because my income is 1/4 of what it was before Mr. Obama took office, and yes that's why I refer to Illinois as Central Obamastan, it is run like a Soviet Republic, sadly the rest of the Nation is not far behind???

 

I came through a documentary made by JASDF a while ago which is about procedure of intercepting foreign aircraft in their air identify zone. One thing bother me is JASDF pilot seems to communicate with air control in english, severely twisted, but still english. It was a japanese fighter jet take off from a JASDF base (not even one of those base shared with USAF) on japanese land talking to JASDF air control, and they speak in a foreign language english. It might be the need to cooprate with USAF but i doubt a native english speaker can understand their english. Later in the documentary they also asked a Y-12 to leave using chinese which is even harder to understand than their english. To be honest i failed to understand every single word. I can't even recognize that was chinese they were speaking.

So here's the two question:

1. Do JASDF pilots really speak english in air even when talking to one of their own?

2. When intercepting a foreign aircraft (which happens a lot between russia, us, china, japan), is it common that the intercepted pilot cannot understand the warning or instruction the interceptor makes? How many incidents were actually caused by misunderstanding rather than someone being provoking or aggressive like most believe?

 

I cannot speak about the JASDF specificly. However, to not let this question go completely unanswered, here's what I can say.
The working language in international aviation is english. Pretty much all the ATC speak is done in that language and I would think the JASDF, even talking to their own controllers, will do it in english. Just to stay in training, so to say. I guess that normally aircraft being intercepted will be called on the radio in english, too. If the nationality of the respective pilot is known and the intercepting pilot speaks that language, it may be prudent to use that. However, one should indeed be fairly certain the speaker is proficient to a level that will ensure the intent can be met /conveied that way.

This is now a bit off, but for NATO, all the tactical talk on the radio is done in english basicly. Even on purely national training missions. Just so you remember the word when you really need it.
Within a flight german pilots will sometines speak some type of Denglish, mixing native words with the applicable english terms. I would guess that this is the same for pretty much all other nations as well. Except for the british and americans of course.

 

First thanks for answering my question.

I thought this pilots must speak english thing is for civilian transportation only and only started since 2008 but for military pilots? Wouldn't communicating in a foreign language in battle considerably reduce combat efficiency?

This might work in europe caused european countries possessing languages more similar to english than asian countries like japan or south korea.

ps: Does french follow this rule too? They always have this independent national defense complex and they've quit nato for deacdes.