When you’re sitting on your next plane, wondering why it’s delayed and how many birthdays will pass before it stops being delayed, you will not mind spending $3.99 on this app. However, the magic of airports is that you can transcend such hesitations because airports are already lawless places where people line up for Domino’s pan pizzas at 7:30am before falling asleep on the floor.Įarlier this month I landed from a red-eye in LaGuardia and, after producing $43.05 to replace headphones I’d left behind (yes, just the regular Apple headphones, no, I could not just wait) had to go straight to an unrelated flight at JFK (don’t ask) where I paid $9.79 for an egg-and-cheese at an establishment that didn’t even have any hot sauce. 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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