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Listen to live air traffic control1/3/2024 It’s $3.99, which is at least $2.99 more than I had or had ever intended to pay for even the best travel apps. Even simpler and easier, listen through the app, which you can download for iPhone or Android. You can do this on your computer (might need to download Flash first). The best way to find these recordings is through, a site where you can listen, as the URL suggests, to real-time air traffic control audio from around the world. I picked one clip at random - or, rather, because it had the words “mid air collision” in the title - and within seconds was listening to an outrageously calm-sounding pilot report, “I’ve been involved in an accident, I’m missing my left gear.” You can listen to blown tires, windshield cracks, engine failures, and planes hitting a whole-ass lot of birds. You can listen to the tower talk to your pilot about why your flight that you are on at this very moment is delayed. You can listen to the tower clear planes for takeoff and landing. The degree to which that resume is embellished is a matter between myself and God, but I will hereby admit it wasn’t until earlier this year that I learned air traffic control audio archives are publicly available, pretty much in real time. According to the resume with which I secured Thrillist’s Travel Writer position, I am a well-traveled person who knows things.
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