Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in
:

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:31:38 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke
wrote:

Indeed, there was quite a fuss a year or two ago when controllers at
Charles de Gaulle demanded that American and British pilots speak in
French.

Unless I missed that news item, you may be mixing some facts up. They
are speaking in French to French crews and English to everyone else.

No, they spoke to the English-speaking flight crews in French. That
was the cause of the celebre.



Happens all the time. Mostly in error. It's only a problem if you can't
count in French (to recognise your own flight number if they are calling
you )
I doubt they were insisting the crews speak in French though, unless the
crews were acting like tits, which is often the case.

Bertie
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