I want to visit some nice little airfields in france with my Cessna. But how big was the dissapointment when I saw the sentence "french R/T only allowed" in their AIP. I will not visit these airfields because I find it unsafe to fly in such an environment. Such a pity
. I do speak dutch as native language, also french and english, but I find it normal to speak english over the radio and I don't understand why the french refuse to do this.
I also work as engineer on some french airplanes, and I also don't understand why they write technical problems in french. Impossible for my english colleagues to understand (thus fix) these problems.
French and German people are terrible on that, they translate airplane manuals, maintenance manuals etc... in their own language.