Crossing the Atlantic last night, two Air France aircraft communicating on 123.45, were being deliberately blocked by one or two others keying open mikes. Not unreasonably as it was 123.45, the AF guys were speaking French.
One was attempting to get the other to pass on a position report as he was experiencing HF problems.
The blocking occured a total of three times and I'm quite certain that it was deliberate.
Whilst I quite understand the current head of steam about the use of French for ATC purposes, I think that the deliberate blocking of a frequency in this way is p*ss poor airmanship and childish in the extreme.
