Well I might not have had my own seat back TV screen, but United is pretty cool when it comes to its Channel 9 feature. That's cool as in extremely geeky.
Channel 9 lets you listen to all the air traffic control communications. I started listening once we'd finished our Atlantic crossing. It was fascinating as we were handed off from one control centre to another. Our pilot was very disappointed when Cleveland centre told us to slow down to 'maintain separation'.
A lot of the other 'chatter' was about turbulence -- what other aircraft had experienced and planes requesting different altitudes different altitudes to avoid any 'chop'.
As we approached Chicago I was listening out to any other international airlines that might be landing at the same time as us and therefore potentially slowing down the passage trough immigration -- I heard a Korean Airlines flight and an EVA Air plane.
It was a bit worrying when we were on the final approach and O'Hare tower warned us about the wind gusts and cross winds. Their last comment was for us to keep our speed up!
Anyway the landing was one of the smoothest I've had in a long time!
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