On Feb 6, 10:58 am, "chris" wrote:
On Feb 6, 10:04 pm, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

Chris,

There's a couple of other differences that spring to mind as I type
this -

Worldwide, there's a ton.

I am starting to realise that! How does someone get on going across
Europe? I presume it's only the French who actively dislike speaking
English on the radio, but there's gotta be lots of traps for young
players...

Not just the French ;-)
To be honest the French are OK when it comes to flying there.
And it is not their dislike for English, most of them just never have
learned it.
In real life it is not much of a problem. French FIS and most of their
large airfields are both French and English.
Only small fields are French only.

Germans do the same.
I can understand German RT well unless somebody from Austria,
Switzerland or even Bavaria calls in and doing their version of
German.

And there is English and English, ever heard pilots from Scotland or
Wales?

-Kees