[xone]

When I’m IMC I want weather from someone observing on the ground that is at my intended point of landing. I have flown around in Japan and Korea, bad places to be IMC. It isn’t that I don’t trust them, I don’t, but the language barrier is sometimes too much for the terminal phase of the flight. The communication piece interferes with the navigation and aviation resposiblity. I know this however, if I was expecting VMC below an overcast and still hadn’t got it at the published mins I’d be going around or diverting.

[Yosemitest]

". I have flown around in Japan and Korea, bad places to be IMC.
It isn’t that I don’t trust them, I don’t,
but the language barrier is sometimes too much for the terminal phase of the flight.
The communication piece interferes with the navigation and aviation responsibility."

I know very well, with 5 tours in South Korea, both Osan AB and Kunsan AB.
If you've got the time read comment #164 of another thread, particularly "The Kim-Hae Massacre".
But without reading comment #163 of that thread, or ALL OF comment #164 of that thread, it won't make much sense.