<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Dromomaniac:
A few weeks ago, on a SFO-PDX flight at night, the conversation went something like this:
Needless to say, it was somewhat alarming, and I did want to just shout at the cockpit, "he's got the wrong number!" I can understand how a pilot might not want the passengers being "in" on a mixup like this. Considering things work the way they are supposed to most of the time, however, I think the benefits of an educated flying public outweigh the minute chance that Channel 9 will trigger some type of mid-cabin panic attack among passengers, when something does go wrong.
Personally, if I were in a situtation such as the recent LHR-IAD filght diverted to GLA due to a cockpit fire, I would immediatley reach for Channel 9 for reassurance that proper procedures were being taken, and to know exactly what was going on.
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Posts like yours are quite possibly contributing to the problem. What happens if a UA pilot reads this? He might think twice about turning on Channel 9, because some back-seat driver might yell at him.
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