i read something about this ages ago, can't really remember much... but putting 'EGLL microwave' into google pulls up loads of results, and i think it's an alternative to ILS, but only really used when the ILS is unserviceable i guess - Microwave i presume is short for microwave landing system, MLS.
Thanks! Any idea why so many British airline pilots, particularly of BA, have the same accent? I would have thought that such RP would have varied by now?
As you so rightly pointed out, British airline pilots have British accents.....because they are British? And BA probably has the biggest percentage of British accents because they most likely recruit pilots from UK academies like CTC Wings and others. That's not to say that everyone in BA has a British accent :)
Peter Matthess Yes British Airways have the most pilots with British accents but why is that one Cambridgeshire/Midlands accent so prominent? Given that very few people in the UK talk like that doesn't make sense to me.
Not sure, being a Cambridgeshire man myself I would say a fair amount of us speak in a general dialect of "the Midlands" I guess. An interesting fact to look into though, maybe BA have an official forum where you can ask a representative or something?
6:30 why is he saying microwave?
i read something about this ages ago, can't really remember much... but putting 'EGLL microwave' into google pulls up loads of results, and i think it's an alternative to ILS, but only really used when the ILS is unserviceable i guess - Microwave i presume is short for microwave landing system, MLS.
And Alex, how do you record this feed? do you live near Heathrow and record using a receiver?
Thanks! Any idea why so many British airline pilots, particularly of BA, have the same accent? I would have thought that such RP would have varied by now?
As you so rightly pointed out, British airline pilots have British accents.....because they are British? And BA probably has the biggest percentage of British accents because they most likely recruit pilots from UK academies like CTC Wings and others. That's not to say that everyone in BA has a British accent :)
Peter Matthess
Yes British Airways have the most pilots with British accents but why is that one Cambridgeshire/Midlands accent so prominent? Given that very few people in the UK talk like that doesn't make sense to me.
Not sure, being a Cambridgeshire man myself I would say a fair amount of us speak in a general dialect of "the Midlands" I guess. An interesting fact to look into though, maybe BA have an official forum where you can ask a representative or something?
How did you record ATC?