What should I expect?

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I listened to the cockpit banter on my UA flight from Orlando to Chicago… It was an A319! Great entertainment feature!!

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thanks

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The Flightdeck audio facility is great and listening to the pilots talking to the ground is an exciting and unique form of in-flight entertainment.

However, as I said in my flight report last month, the Captain can switch this on and off at his discrection. Going out to America, we had it all the way. However, returning to the UK it was off all the way and replaced with some cheap jazz music.

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but one of
>the stations was called “from the flightdeck” and you could
>hear the air traffic control talking to our aircraft and
>surrounding aircraft.

I too listened to that on my one and only UA flight, 5 years ago on a 757 from SFO to EWR, so you should get it on domestic flights, too (over a certain aircraft size, anyway)

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Is it possible to listen to the ATC? I cant remember who i did that with before, but channel 10 or 11 was the ATC and pilots etc. is that available?
thanks for all the other info though!
Mark

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Well, you would think so.

But clearly United do assign some of their 767-300s to domestic routes. Occasionally, these aircraft are used on the transatlantic services but are not equipped with the “international” equipment.

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er, correct me if I’m wrong… but aren’t ALL transatlantic flights International ones? 😛

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-12-02 AT 10:56 PM (GMT)]Hand 87_5,

I found the 767-300 to be just as good to be honest. Was relatively pleased with it overall – legroom, seat width etc. Just the entertainment lacked a bit of “oomf”!

Also, when flying the 767-300 on transatlanatic services, you aren’t always guaranteed a PTV. The airline claims that only “International” 767s are fitted with this facility.

and Ren Frew,

I also flew the Airtours (now MyTravel of course) A330 in March of this year. The cameras were great but it seems a pointless feature. Considering they use the A330 on mostly transatlantic routes, there is little to see for 90% of the total journey. However, takeoff and landing is good and gives you the pilot’s perspective. One thing they need to rectify is that when the intercom is used, the footage doesn’t sotp which it seemed to do… GRR..!!

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T5 is correct.
I fly a lot on UA 777 between CDG and SFO.
Legroom is better than on AF or DL, TV is great.

However they downsized the service from CDG and now are operating 760-300ER 🙁

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Anyone been on a flight with outside cameras wired into the PTV ? My Airtours A330 flight had them. One looking straight down and one looking ahead. Really good feature I thought.

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-12-02 AT 10:19 AM (GMT)]Hi MINIDOH,

United 777’s are good. I flew N774UA just recently and was thrilled by the friendliness of the crew and the facilities on the aircraft.

Economy is in a 2-5-2 seating configuration, sounds a lot, but really it’s not. There is plenty of room both to the side of you and even for your legs and feet!

There are personal TV’s for all passengers. The 777 has the widest range of entertainment (i.e. more channels) than the larger 747-400 and the smaller 767-300.

There are 30 or 40 something video channels with the same programme in a variety of languages and some really quite recent films. With the audio side of things, this is good too. When I flew, being English, I wasn’t too familiar with the music being played, so stuck to the video, but one of the stations was called “from the flightdeck” and you could hear the air traffic control talking to our aircraft and surrounding aircraft.

Not really much more can be said, but it’s a great aircraft and what I believe to be a great airline.