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Mar 23, 2008 | 9:29 am

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kenhawk

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Quote:

Originally Posted by flyswim

I was doing r/t SFO-BOS the week of 3/10 - didn't get Ch 9 either direction. Pilot on the return leg told me when I asked upon boarding that the audio was getting recorded and posted on the internet, so many pilots were turning it off.

Has anyone else heard about this?

What is the big deal about this? The transmission is in the public domain anyway, and there are web sites you could log onto to listen to ATC over the Internet now...