ATC feed on entertainment system
 

Some of you may know that United airlines, which is quite a lousy airline otherwise, has one unique feature on its entertainment system not offered by any other carrier. At the discretion of the Captain, the ATC feed aircraft can be braodcast to PAX on what is known as channel 9

Emirates is know a market leader in IFE I would be interested to whether and if you FFs would be interested in having this feature on ICE ? I have quite enjoyed it on UA, and would like to see it on EK especially given the diversity and range of EK as a global airline

Channel 9 is very popular among UA FF PAX see their thread on UA Mileage Plus for how lively the discussion is

yes a good idea!! love the tail camera on the A380 and ATC would be the icing on the cake.

Good idea
 

Great! I knew at least some of us aviation junkies would love this If more people post we could jointly write to EK to make this happen! It is a zero cost thing

IIRC civilian monitoring of ATC comms is illegal in the UAE, so the chances of this happening are between slim and none.

Another nicety would be a hook with Google Earth so you could find out what you look at on the ground.

I had a Radio that picked up ATC many years ago, I wonder if anyone use to take them on to planes and listen while in flight!! Guess they would get into trouble if caught.
Google earth is a great tool, use it for checking out holiday detinations and my last holiday was to a place in thailand called Bangsaen. Its where all the Time people go for weekends and only 40 mins from Bangkok.
Google earth can be used with Open ATC.

I used to love it on UA and it would be fantastic if EK did it. It woudl be a great point of differentiation Vs other ME carriers.

While checking the legality, I have found the following links:

The official frequency bands for DXB including ATC channel

http://vatjo.net/VATUAE/2P0/index.ph...&id=1&Itemid=3

A web site where you can listen live a lot of airports, but sorry DXB is not covered. I started listening IST though.
http://www.liveatc.net/

How about having FSX Flight sim on Ice ;)

suprised emirates have not gone into a deal with Sony (playstation) or Xbox to provide games but i dont think playing Bowls on the wii would be a a good thing LOL.

I thinks it's still illegal in the UK also. However, if you've ever been to the aviation viewing park at MAN, you'd see that this particular 'law' is overlooked :)

Cheers,
Rick

PS. The only time I used this on United was on an SFO-LHR flight about 10 years ago. I though it sounded quite informal. Eg. :-

ATC - 'UAXXX, cleared for take off. There's a ZZZ flight due to cross in front of you, so please get a move on'

UAXXX - 'UAXXX, we're rolling, we'll keep an eye out for him'


Cheers,
Rick