EXPRESSION
FRANÇAISES
The
first International Air Navigation Conference was
convened
in
Frenchman
Louis Bleriot's first international flight by a
heavier-than-air
machine across the English Channel.The
treatment
of aviation matters was a subject at the
Peace
Conference of 1919 and, following the
Conference
in 1944, ICAO was formed in 1947 with
headquarters
in French-speaking
It's
no wonder there are many French words and expressions
used
in aviation.Apart from French words that are
exactly
the same in English (such as aileron, empennage
and
fuselage), there are a number of others that are
widely
used that you may have found a little obscure.
Here
is a selection of them:
FRENCH
AVIATION USAGE
la
brume = mist BR mist
la
fumée = smoke FU smoke
la
poussière = dust
la
grêle = hail GR hail
heures
de jour = hrs of day HJ day time
heures
de nuit = hours of night HN night time
jour
ouvrable = working day JO weekday
jour
férié = non-working day JF weekend and
public
holiday
universel
temps coordonné UTC Coordinated
Universal
Time
m'aidez
= help me mayday
la
panne = breakdown pan-pan pan-pan pan-pan
sortir
= to leave sortie