An experiment was made 10 or 15 years ago in Paris to make french pilots speak english. For some reason,the resulting decision was to come back to french.Don't know why.
Hello brATCO...
I was an AF F/O on the A320 when this occured...
You seem to imply that we went back to french because pilots were not good enough in english.
Allow me to correct you: We reverted back to french because of the uproar the CDG ATC made at this new "procedure"...
I agree the AF official in charge of the project should have thought of letting the CDG ATC know that - quite suddenly - starting next monday, ALL AF flights would talk to them in english ! That was poor planning on his part...
I remember reading the mention "ATC in french when possible" on the D-ATIS !
But anyway, your reference to the...wait for it... HIMYM show indicates you are one of the "good" ones !
Cheers