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Channel 9: How United Airlines Allowed Passengers To Listen To Live ATC Communications
When you're on board an aircraft, the only time you'll ever hear the pilots during the entire flight is when they use the public address system to make announcements and information about the flight or destination. As a frequent flyer, hearing the same generic statements can become quite dull. (www.msn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
About 10 years ago a United 757 captain (during his PA) said something like " Your flying on a Boeing 757 - (and if your interested), after we reach our cruising altitude, meet me on channel 9 - for the specs, design and history of the 757" as a Private and Aviation geek - I tuned in and waited. What I heard was an amazing pilot, give a beautiful talk about his beloved aircraft, and one of mine to this day. channel 9 was never this good :) even though I listened always ..
Wow Scott, that might have been me! I used to do that on trans cons to hopefully pass back some more aviation geeky information about the flight to people who might be more interested beyond the typical cruising altitude, timeliness stuff. That little trick wasn’t “in the book” but was a variation of the technique. I never heard of anyone else who did it but between 10,000 of us I’m sure I couldn’t have been the only one who got the idea. Channel 9 was wired through the observer’s audio panel. For my one way discussion I would turn down Comm 1 on that panel which is where ATC normally is and turn up the interphone which during flight was not normally used and talk on the interphone. I’d pick a time I knew would likely have very little going on and of course I’d continue to monitor Comm 1 while the F/O flew the plane but at normal cruise the five minutes used for this exercise never had an interruption for operational reasons. Hope it actually was one of my flights since you enjoyed it so much, it must mean there were others as well which also makes me quite happy.
I can't remember when it was, but I had a similar experience with the captain of a 737 on a Boston to O'Hare flight. He really put a lot of effort into the narrative. I thanked him as I disembarked in Chicago. I had always hoped others had listened and done the same. Thanks for helping bring this semi-forgotten memory out of my archival storage!
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Effective communication depends on the messenger being understood by those receiving the message. In this case everyone knew what Scott was saying so there was no need for your rude and unsolicited BS. If you want to be obnoxious please head over to Facebook or Twitter were that kind of behaviour has already destroyed those platforms. This site is for adults who wish to discuss aviation related topics not spelling and grammer.
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