Originally Posted by
Herb687
How long ago was this a thing?
I certainly remember channel 9 (and on certain older equipment channel 4) on UA but I never remember ATC on AA.
While live ATC was never as prevalent on AA as UA, there was a brief period (I want to say late 1970's) when we had both ATC and a camera in the cockpit that was turned on for TO and landings. It went away when a crew member croked on camera.