q to you flying guys - is it a standard for the tower control staff to have a certain type of accent? e.g. I wonder what goes on between a craft piloted by a scotsman and the tower control is from south india.

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In the US you get accents from all over the country as the ATC guys do some moving around. A good deal is when you can get in to an area of the country you want to be, typically where you are from, unless you would rather be in some area of the country. Then you are like anyone else, you might take on the local accent or might not.
My sister come up to visit Wisconsin, she moved to Florida, and we have her talking normally in no time!
I guess they have a heck of a time talking English in some of these countries where English is not the native language!

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Locry, you have probably heard it this way

107 = wan oh seben
108 = wan oh et
109 = wan oh nan
114 = wan wan por
115 = wan wan payb
123 = wan too tree
124 = wan too por
126 = wan too siix
201 = toh oh wan
140 = wan por tee
210 = too ten

etc ...

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Here in bavaria we say:

126: hundertsechserzwanzger
124: hundertvierazwanzger
140: hundertvierzger
201: zwoahundertoanser

And because i have one:
115: strich achta


Note: all in the bavarian accent

-- so Im trying the german phonetic...

hundert feer azwanjer - 124...

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I can relate a bit to that - but no aircraft,, no control tower. We were relaying passcodes on a three way conference. I was on one end, I speak fairly clean - people in the US, UK, AUS, ZA can easily understand me without asking me to repeat.

One party was in Edinburgh, Scotland with a reasonably clean english accent and the third party was from Dubai but the guy was from Tamil Nadu or malabar or somewhere like that India - and he had this problem

m = yum
f = yuf or yeff
hello = yulllow
etc etc.

We had to say our each letter and number of a 13 digit sequence.

It was quite a hard situation. This post made me wonder what would happen if an aircraft were to communicate with such a tower.

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