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Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC
mad8 wrote: Paul kgyy wrote: If you want a better feel for what actually goes on than you will ever get via newsgroup, take a couple of United flights and listen to the ATC channel - it can be much more entertaining than the movie at times. i love that "channel". It's really fun being able to say to the person you're flying with "i can predict the future. Check it out, we're gonna turn left in about 3 seconds" Coming into LAX a while back, I was listening on that channel. We were cruising along nicely when I hear ATC urgently call out something like "United 123, traffic twelve o'clock, descend immediately to eight thousand, please expedite!" I turned to my companion and said "hold on". A second later, we all went weightless as the plane took an unusually sharp dive. After we leveled off again, the captain came on the speaker and said, "Well folks, as you can tell, we've just been given permission to descend towards the airport." Kev |
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Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC
Paul kgyy writes:
If you want a better feel for what actually goes on than you will ever get via newsgroup, take a couple of United flights and listen to the ATC channel - it can be much more entertaining than the movie at times. I didn't know it was possible to do that. I haven't flown in a long time. I'm surprised nobody has forbidden it as "useful to terrorists." -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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