I learned to fly at St Hubert Airport (CYHU) outside of Montreal, where ATC spoke English to English-speaking pilots and French to French-speaking pilots. I liv

I learned to fly at St Hubert Airport (CYHU) outside of Montreal, where ATC spoke English to English-speaking pilots and French to French-speaking pilots. I lived in Montreal so I knew enough French to get by, but I could never make out more than a few words at the pace and quality of ATC transmissions plus C152 engine noise -- even in a controlled airspace, not overhearing other planes' instructions is a strange feeling. But those French-speaking pilots probably heard their own instructions clearer than if they'd been in English.