After reading a few articles on the Francoflyers blog, author Dominique Défossez was kind enough to send me a review copy of the excellent L'Anglais Pour Voler which is now in it’s 4th Edition.
Although the title suggests a publication aimed at French speakers learning aviation English, the book works equally well in the opposite direction.
But this is not just a few handy ‘tourist phrases'—it is a comprehensive work on all aspects of aviation terminology.
For example, under the ‘Aircraft Types’ section, I learned that ‘un cerf-volant’ is a kite and ‘un planeur’ is a glider—actually, I already knew about the cerf-volant having often visited the excellent restaurant in the hotel of the same name by the entrance to Limoges airport.
In addition to aircraft types, areas covered by this book include airframes, engines, systems, flight instruments, performance, maintenance and air traffic services.
There is also extensive coverage of radiotelephony phraseology.
As if more than 200 pages of that good stuff weren’t enough, there are English-French and French-English reference sections arranged alphabetically together with a section on ‘Meteo codes' organised both thematically and alphabetically.
Just to allow for anything that may have been missed, the last 2 pages provide useful terms for ‘a whatsit’ (un Machin) and 'a thingummyjig’ (un Bidule).
I was most impressed by the organisation of this book which comes in a handy spiral-bound format for easy handling.
The book may be purchased directly from www.anglais-pour-voler.com or from various ‘aviation’ shops also listed on the web site.
The publication will also be available in 'Le CD-ROM' format later in the year.
There is, incidentally, a very useful FREE resource on this web site—a monthly English-language audio recording of the "In English, please" column from the French 'Info-Pilote' magazine.
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