Air Freq Scanner on Commerical Flight ok?

I just flew Finnair a couple months ago from London to Helsinki. They had
cameras on the nose wheel and another location I don't recall. Very nice.

I was an avid listener of UAL voice coms. One time I flew from New York to
the West coast and listened the whole way. After we took of we got cleared
to an initial altitude waiting for release to our final cruising altitude.
The initial hold put us RIGHT at the cloud tops at sunset. I could feel
very subtle control imputs used to go around some of the cloud peaks. We
got cleared to our final cruise and the pilots asked to hold at the current
altitude [GRIN]. Now I know they were having fun. We stayed there making
very gentle turns for more than a few minutes. I looked around the cabin
and virtually nobody was even looking outside and I am sure that nobody knew
what was going on. Eventually they requested to climb and we left that
beautiful picture behind. Somewhere in the middle of the country the
weather was a total line of thunderstorms arcross the country. We were
North, we were South, we were North. All of the pilots were talking and the
ride was bumpy. We eventually had to stop in TX for fuel, sat on the tarmac
for an hour and took off again. Still flying, bumping, looking for that
hole. The pilot turned off the voice coms to the cabin. I politely stopped
a flight attendant when she went by and asked her if she could ask the
flight crew if they could turn voice coms back on. [I thought like there is
a chance in hell she will even bother them] A couple minutes later...voila,
it was back on. Eventually somebody found a hole, made a pirep and
everybody across the country went for it, including us. We landed some 6
hours late. All of the cattle were in a mighty fine mood. When I walked by
the Captain and First Officer were out saying good bye. [brave of them] As
I walked by I said, "Nice flight!" And the Captain said, "Give us another
try sometime..."

I really wanted to push my way back through the mob. He obviously
misunderstood my, "Nice Flight" comment as an insult. If I could have
pushed my way back I would have explained that I was with them enjoying the
sunset. It was great hearing all of the professional guys talking & helping
each other. Yeah, we were late and my butt hurt but it was a fantastic
flight and I learned a lot just being a fly on the wall. ...but I never
got to say any of that.


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Gary G wrote:
Do you think there's any chance that Delta would have
the ability to pipe radio through the cabin?

No. They won't. The only ones that actually do have that sort
of setup, is UAL.

BL.
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American used to do it...


I don't recall AA ever providing audio but I do remember them providing
video for a while. Camera over the pilot's shoulder looking out the
windscreen and/or a nose wheel cam as well.

Had a nose wheel cam display on an Egypt Air 777 flight one time as
well...very cool sight turning final.