Loudest seat on an AA flight?
Jun 11, 2007, 8:44 pm
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Loudest seat on an AA flight?
I'm asking, because I think I may have just sat it in it. Seat 4D on an AT7. It was like front row at a rock concert, even with the Bose headphones on!
Could there possibly be a louder row on a louder plane to be found anywhere in the entire AA fleet (except possibly 5D, right behind me)?
Needless to say, I changed my seats on the return to the back of the plane.
Could there possibly be a louder row on a louder plane to be found anywhere in the entire AA fleet (except possibly 5D, right behind me)?
Needless to say, I changed my seats on the return to the back of the plane.
Jun 11, 2007, 9:35 pm
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Any of the back few rows of an S80 will also qualify.
Mike
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Jun 11, 2007, 10:16 pm
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Whatever seat my wife is in after she has a few cocktails ...
Jun 11, 2007, 10:52 pm
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The seat in proxmity of a crying baby or a young women on her cell phone with her girlfriend during a long ground delay is my vote.
Jun 12, 2007, 4:56 am
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Sit in 31 - 32 DEF on an MD-80, and you won't hear the baby or cell phone - the Pratt & Whitney JT8D on your shoulder will be all you hear (well, maybe your knees crying for relief too.)
Jun 12, 2007, 5:10 am
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1A on the ERJ, or even worse, the cockpit of an ERJ
Jun 12, 2007, 6:26 am
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How about if several women in an extended family are getting together, and it happens that one of them joins another during a layover and travel the rest of the way to their destination together; they haven't spoken face-to-face for more than a year (doesn't matter how much time on the phone), and you got stuck in the middle seat between them. 
Brings to mind the Mad About You episode when Paul has to listen to his sister-in-law's weird story after solemnly promising not to roll his eyes while she is relating it to him, and after she finishes and turns away he clutches his head from the strain of fighting the need to roll his eyes like Marty Feldman during her diatribe.
Steve
Brings to mind the Mad About You episode when Paul has to listen to his sister-in-law's weird story after solemnly promising not to roll his eyes while she is relating it to him, and after she finishes and turns away he clutches his head from the strain of fighting the need to roll his eyes like Marty Feldman during her diatribe.
Steve
Jun 12, 2007, 7:47 am
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Jun 12, 2007, 7:55 am
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wow, given those alternatives, maybe I should consider myself lucky! It was absolutely deafening, but at least it was steady.... (and arriving on the island of grenada was pretty a pretty good reward)...
still, i learned the hard way that the best seats on that plane are in the BACK. (The silly plane also boards from the back, incidentally.)
still, i learned the hard way that the best seats on that plane are in the BACK. (The silly plane also boards from the back, incidentally.)
Jun 12, 2007, 7:55 am
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I cannot imagine sitting in the back seats on the MD80 next to the engines. I get deaf just waiting for the lav.
Jun 12, 2007, 7:59 am
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I'm asking, because I think I may have just sat it in it. Seat 4D on an AT7. It was like front row at a rock concert, even with the Bose headphones on!
Could there possibly be a louder row on a louder plane to be found anywhere in the entire AA fleet (except possibly 5D, right behind me)?
Needless to say, I changed my seats on the return to the back of the plane.
Could there possibly be a louder row on a louder plane to be found anywhere in the entire AA fleet (except possibly 5D, right behind me)?
Needless to say, I changed my seats on the return to the back of the plane.
Jun 12, 2007, 8:00 am
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As the MD80 reaches cruise speed, the wind noise gets louder and louder up front - not the air packs (though a few "air pax" have been loud. 
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Jun 12, 2007, 8:31 am
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Personally I don't really mind the engine noise towards the back of an MD80. Although I hate the lack of windows in the last few rows. I find the steady drone of those JT-8s to be a reassuring sound. It was even more so in the beloved 727!