Many years ago I flew Dash 8 for Air Canada Jazz, based in Montreal. Flying into small northern Quebec airports always made me uneasy. Joining the traffic pattern, either ifr or vfr, we would make our freq reports in english(capt and fo only english speaking). A number of Beechcraft, Navajos coming in at the same time speaking only French, and it being only a radio controlled airport made for some interesting times. Radio operator would give us only the basic info in english but aircraft flying in the area were supposed to keep separation from each other. I can only assume the French speaking aircraft worked it out to keep separation from us English speakers. Needles to say our situational awareness wasn't the greatest. But in my short time there, there were no near misses so I suppose it makes speaking French on freq ok
