ABO:
rookiepilot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:35 pm
I'm a GA pilot who has flown into Quebec but
more often into Eastern Ontario. I'd heard French both in controlled and uncontrolled airspace, the latter certainly is a safety concern for someone with extremely rusty French when it gets really busy.
Multiple occasions heard, (over the years) at low altitude, well inside Ontario -- over 100 nm -- on 126.70 and different Unicom frequencies while I was transiting. Can't recall one when I was actually landing -- to be fair, except perhaps Ottawa, which was controlled.
The logic of doing that, makes no sense to me. If I can be enlightened, I'm all ears.
Here's an interesting stat: (OTTAWA)
"As such it is the largest city in Canada with both English and French as co-official languages.... [T]hose with French as their mother tongue make up 14.2 percent of the population."
And for that small amount // dual language everything.
(RICHMOND BC).
"In Richmond, 44.8% indicated Chinese as their mother tongue, 33.1% indicated English".
Why isn't there approaches and the ATIS offered in Chinese at YVR?