I've just been watching some video reports on the BBC news website showing an RAF man being a crew member of a twin seat French jet, a mirage I think. It implied that the jet had been on sortie over Libya and had fired weapons. Is this routine? Does the French airforce need English speakers to be able to communicate with people on the ground or is this some sort of arrangement that existed prior to the Libyan crisis?
Maybe the RAF in theatre with their 14 planes have too many crew while the French airforce with their 100 or so planes have too few.
