Aviation radio communication

Hello !

As you can see on my avatar I enjoy flying.

When flying abroad, it’s now compulsory for French pilots to pass an English exam and show that they’re able to communicate with ATC (Air Traffic Control).

I intend to take this exam so I’ve learned the vocabulary and I listen to ATC online.

Thanks to the link below you can listen to NY JFK (KJFK code), Dublin, Shannon, Geneva, Orly etc and if you’re lucky, you can hear them joking!

http://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=all

http://controleaerien.pagesperso-orange.fr/ rubrique « insolite »
Entendu sur la fréquence Sol de Toulouse Blagnac (121.90 MHz) :
Un matin avec un banc de brouillard assez fin qui masquait les pistes. Après quelques atterrissages d'A320 et de 737, arrive un 747 qui n'était pas un habitué du terrain. Une fois posé, cherchant à regagner le parking, le pilote émet un doute quant à sa position. La contrôleuse, pleine de bonne volonté, cherchant à rassurer le pilote, lui dit du plus naturellement du monde :
« Vous êtes sur Papa 40, j'en suis sûre, je vois votre queue qui dépasse du brouillard. », ce à quoi le pilote plein d'humour répondit : « Vous êtes sûre que vous ne voyez pas ma dérive plutôt ? ».

Hi François,

Thanks a lot for your message for several reasons:

- I'm very pleased to meet you on the forum and get the opportunity to exchange with you

- thanks for the story from Blagnac!
Couldn't hear anything that funny on ATC Online yet!

- listening to any accent, getting any experience of foreign language are useful to become more knowledgeable... at the moment, I'm connected to Toronto Approach and am trying to catch the technical messages
One of my friends was a US pilot (military then civil): I'm going to forward the link so that he can go back to "Ye olde good times"

Good luck for your exams!

Thanks a lot, François for sharing your passion with us. I don't know anything about flying and I am rather scared at the idea of driving a plane. Anyway I find flying a state-of -the -art technology, a dream come true

Thank you Muriel and Gérard for your kind answer and your encouragement.
This topic is for me a good opportunity to speak and talk in english, maintain, transmit my vocabulary...
I'm indeed very pleased too to talk to you via the web, this marvelous tool!