Anyone take an ICOM on a commercial flight?

On Jan 31, 8:55*am, "F. Baum" wrote:
On Jan 31, 6:14*am, Ron Natalie wrote:



The question is why would you want to do this. On most flights ATC is
available on the inflight entertainment system. \

"Most flights" Hardly.
United is the only one who does this to my knowledge and ATC-on-9
(officially "from the cockpit") is entirely at the captain's
discretion.

"Most Flights" Actually. . DAL and NWA do this also. On the bigger
equipment they even have a moving map in the cabin so the Sheep can
follow the progress. The cockpit crew has no control of the inflight
entertainment system (Other than telling the cabin crew to shut it
off).



Notwithstanding that, the radio and the GPS stay in the flight bag
for the duration of the flight.

As they should. Ive had two incidents where pax were suspected of
operating a two way device. Both turned out OK but they provided a
distraction that we just dont need.
Frank

Frank,

Was that on Delta or NW overseas flights? I have never seen it on any
domestic flight or on flights to SK in Canada.

Take care . . .

John

On 2008-01-31, F. Baum wrote:
"Most Flights" Actually. . DAL and NWA do this also.

Oh, yeah? NW flights on 757 and smaller aircraft don't even have audio any
more. I haven't been on a DL flight that's had the comm feed on the audio
system, either. (Before you object that I don't know what I'm talking about,
I generally make Platinum Elite on NW in 6 months or so after the beginning
of the year.)

On the bigger equipment they even have a moving map in the cabin so the
Sheep can follow the progress. The cockpit crew has no control of the
inflight entertainment system (Other than telling the cabin crew to shut
it off).

The UA comm feed to channel 9 is controlled by the captain. I make a point,
on those rare occasions I fly UA, to thank the crew if the captain leaves
channel 9 up.
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On Jan 31, 7:57*am, "F. Baum" wrote:

The question is why would you want to do this. On most flights ATC is
available on the inflight entertainment system.

Really? What airline does this nowadays? I remember American and
United used to back in the 80's and I loved to follow along in an
atlas with high airways over printed on the maps (hey, it beat what
was showing for a movie 99.4% of the time). But it seems to me
everyone stopped doing that in the late 80's and early 90's.

Nowadays I fly mostly Delta whose audio pickings are slim beyond
reason or Airtran which provides XM radio which isnt bad. I would
love to find a flight that had ATC as an audio choice.

Take care . . .

John

On Jan 31, 10:41*am, John wrote:

Really? *What airline does this nowadays? *I remember American and
United used to back in the 80's and I loved to follow along in an
atlas with high airways over printed on the maps (hey, it beat what
was showing for a movie 99.4% of the time). *But it seems to me
everyone stopped doing that in the late 80's and early 90's.

I guess I will stand corrected on this one. I ride in the back all the
time but I never pay attention to whats on the radio (Or the silly
inflight movies). The last time I did run through the channels was on
a 767-400 and it was there. I also noticed it on a 767-300 ER a few
years back, but that was into FRA . Could be different for
International ?