Aussie Andy
16th Apr 2002, 23:05
Bonjour mes amis! :cool:
We are planning a trip through France to Barcelona and La Rochelle in 3 aircraft from Wycombe in the UK in early May.
Mostly we will be stopping at major airports, such as Tours & Carcassonne, where we can use English with ATC but we also plan to stop at some where French must be used, such as Pamiers near Toulouse, and some of our bad-weather diversion fields may take us to places where we must use French in the circuit.
We are all mostly non-French speakers - my wife speaks French very well, but she won't be with us! So we are a bit nervous about this.
I have looked up a site (http://www.higher.flyer.co.uk/html/franglais.html) which gives an explanation of French R/T phraseology, but this is not easy to refer to when actually flying.
So I have made a one page reference guide (http://web.onetel.net.uk/~andy_hardy/fr_circuit.pdf) in MS Word format to use as a "crib sheet" to help with this.
As I am not a French speaker and I have not yet flown in France, I would ber very grateful if anyone is able to check this and offer any comments or corrections please!
Many thanks,
Andy
We are planning a trip through France to Barcelona and La Rochelle in 3 aircraft from Wycombe in the UK in early May.
Mostly we will be stopping at major airports, such as Tours & Carcassonne, where we can use English with ATC but we also plan to stop at some where French must be used, such as Pamiers near Toulouse, and some of our bad-weather diversion fields may take us to places where we must use French in the circuit.
We are all mostly non-French speakers - my wife speaks French very well, but she won't be with us! So we are a bit nervous about this.
I have looked up a site (http://www.higher.flyer.co.uk/html/franglais.html) which gives an explanation of French R/T phraseology, but this is not easy to refer to when actually flying.
So I have made a one page reference guide (http://web.onetel.net.uk/~andy_hardy/fr_circuit.pdf) in MS Word format to use as a "crib sheet" to help with this.
As I am not a French speaker and I have not yet flown in France, I would ber very grateful if anyone is able to check this and offer any comments or corrections please!
Many thanks,
Andy