English at CDG?
Hi ppruners,
I received this poll from a french student atc controller. Originally this was sent to french speaking crews only, but I believe that the one of you who are flying regularly to CDG are concerned too. But please do not shoot on the pianist, he's student and would like to make a study on the subject to be presented at the end of his school year. So if you can take a few minutes of your time to answer the next questions and mail them to: [email protected] Thanks Some information about you : What is your position in the crew ? On what type are you flying ? Do you fly quite often in CDG ? Is it a question important to you to understand the atc msg to and from the other a/c ? Do try to have a situation awareness based on R/T ? on the ground with good weather : Y / N by foggy wx : Y / N on twr freq : by good wx : Y / N foggy wx: Y / N on departure freq : Y / N on appr freq : Y / N Does all the crew listen carefully to the radio or is it the job of only one pilot ? Does it take a lot of your ressources to listen to a atc frequency ? On a scale of 3 (1 being the most efficient) could you classify the thre next element - TCAS - Atc frequency watch - Trafic infos Do you think those three element are : complementary ? necessary? Redundant ? Do you think that using another language than french would make the atc msg shorter, would shortcut some useless discussions ? (This one and the next ones concern probably more the french speaking crews…but anyway give your opinion !) Y / N Do you think that the use of english between french speaking crew will reinforce the flight safety ? The confort of the non french speaking crews ? In case of problem do you speak : english ? french ? Do you think we should refuse the use of english in CDG to protect the french language? Y / N According to your experience in other non french speaking countries, do feel more secure if all the atc is done in english, or do you feel securer in a bilingual environment where you can understand half of the messages ? Do you have a personnel experience where an incident has been avoided thanks to the comprehension of an atc msg to another trafic ? Or a bilingual situation where you think that if everybody should have speak the same language ? Do find destabilysing to have one freq in french and the other one in english ? Y / N Would you like in this case that the atc control tells you in which language you have to contact the next freq ? Y / N Do you think that the use of english would make it more difficult to proceed for visual approaches or to ask for shortcuts ? Y / N If you flew to CDG during the trial period in march-april 2000, did you feel some difficulties on the control side to speak english ? Did they do it without any hard feelings ? During that trial period, it has been noticed that the french crew needed more time to understand their callsign when they understood it… Would you accept a call sign in french followed by the rest in english ? Y / N Are you for the use of english on the following frequencies: - delivery : Y / N - ground : Y / N - tower : Y / N - Departure : Y / N - Approach : Y / N Nous vous remercions grandement d’avoir pris le temps de répondre à ce questionnaire. Nous espérons en faire bon usage. Vous pouvez ajouter ci-après tout commentaire que vous jugerez utile. Thanks a lot for taking a few minutes of your time to answer this . If you have any comments, feel free to add it here below. Amicalement |
Moved over to Questions if you'd like to respond.
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Ban English at CDG to protect the French Language?
Hmm, what an idea. It probably would cut down on some of the air traffic in the Paris area. :rolleyes: |
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