Imagine they decide to speak only english in Moscow...tomorrow!! It will be a big mess!! It's obvious here that we cannot DECIDE to speak only english..but we have to be well prepared!
Yachtpilot....NO we need more than the usual phraseology!!! We need to have studied english from college classe and we need a very long training for comprehension and talking....atc need to be ready to say anything in engligh when they need to...We must have a regular training too....it's not so easy and require a lot of time from us and money and organisation from administration.
I think having a native english speaker with us is a good thing for non usual phraseology (emergency or medical problem for exemple, Russians had a good idea...)
I love learning languages but it is very difficult to reach the level required for a safe atc service...As I said before, the level is rising in France and we have more opportunity to work on english....
Boss Raptor...I'm
trying to learn Russian too....Hopefully we don't have to speak russian on frequency
so difficult!