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EHM-1001 Robert:
Just to give you a current snapshot of pilot nationalities in order (registered pilots):

UK - 65
Portugal - 16
USA - 14
Netherlands - 8
Belgium - 6
Australia - 6
Germany - 6
Norway - 5
Hungary - 5
Switzerland - 5
Canada - 4
...the rest

You can see, English is dominating, then Portuguese, and also there is a quite big German community. The rest are probably too few. If we stick to the original questions, pilots are divided among HUBs in larger groups.

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Nice and enlightening statistics!

And yes, the original question was not for a subdivision per language, but per hub. You are right.

But how would that work with , say , the EHAM hub? There's 8 Dutch guys, so they will most probably "belong" to that hub. Let's count in the Belgian force of 6 people to that hub too (assuming they speak Dutch, not French ;)) But what if (hypothetically) 2 more Portugese guys and three Hungarians also chose EHAM to be their hub, for whatever reason. What would become the Hub-language? There's really not that many people around in the world that speak Dutch ... or Portugese ... probably even less that speak Hungarian ...
So the "per-hub-one-language subdivision" probably would not work either. You would end up with a subdivision per language, irrespective of the hubs, anyway.

So that's more or less the reasoning behind why I picked up on your "nationality groups" idea (thus leaving the hub groups idea) without giving it much further explanation. It did swing the thread off-topic a bit, though.

EHM-1001 Robert:
Of course, you are right in case of EHAM! But you can be sure that 90% of Portuguese guys are registered under LPPT. I think in that case a Portuguese sub-forum may helped the life ;) In case of Zürich, we could have a German language base, and maybe Greek for LGAV, although there are multiple nationalities there too...

EHM-0654 Murray:
TBH, looking at the stats you left for us earlier Robert, the VA is mostly UK English, and by quite a margin. It might be best to maintain the status quo for now and not worry about "native language", at least for the immediate future.

EHM-2483 Marcus:
I also agree to have English as the only language here. As a German I am definitely far away from speaking / writing perfect English but it still good enough to post and read messages. Allowing other languages will in my opinion not result in any additional benefit but would just slow down the communication and separate us from each other.

Marcus

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