I was flying SEA-DEN-EWR yesterday and both flights had interesting Ch.9 incidences. The funniest of all was at SEA while we were at the gate. The UA flight was still boarding and the ground freq. was on. Many flights were leaving and it was pretty busy around 8:00 am. Suddenly an announcement was heard which went like "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Southwest flight XXX with service to Salt Lake City. Our flight time will be this many hrs and the weather is ..." In a nutshell the pilot made the pax announcement on the air at the ground frequency to which the controller replied " Am I moving again?" The pilot replied "Sorry about that".. Another pilot came on and said "I have never done that".. All of a sudden the ground frequency was full of remarks like "yeehaw" , "Opps I did it again" and "har har har" . :) It was really funny.. Felt like all these pilots were having fun and act like kids again.. On the flight from DEN to EWR while we were taxing to runway 8, our pilot asked the tower controller what were the cranes doing around the tower. It turns out that the people who contructed the DEN airport forgot to put lightning rods to the tower. So, they were adding rods to the tower. The controller said " If you ask me it's the wast of taxpayers money. Who would need a rod, when you have 360 foot thing sticking out ..." .. Captain replied "I bet you feel pretty secure in there...". The last comment by controller was "you have no idea" in a sarcastic way of course.. The last incident was in EWR. We landed on runway 22L and passed the hold short line. In stead of switching to the ground frequency the pilot switched to the approach. I was hearing the controller giving approach clearences to the other aircraft but I was thinking that this could be the case where the Ch.9 is tuned to another frequency other than the active ones that pilots use. Of course, that was prooved wrong when approach called us with "United 8166, do you copy?". the pilot replied and was told that ground controller was looking for him. All this time we were holding short of rwy 22R. So we actually had to switch to tower frequency instead of the ground.. We contacted the ground and ground controller told us to contact the tower and he was not happy. When we switched back to tower the controller told us that we were supposed to listen to him. While he was speaking the Ch.9 started to broadcast some kind of elevator music. :) Gotta love that.. BAHA Fan of Ch.9 and free entertaintment that comes with it :) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge & refill kit orders to US & Canada. Low prices up to 80% off. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark & more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/GHXcIA/n.WGAA/ySSFAA/DmVolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> SkyOne--The Airline News Channel To Post message: Skyone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To Subscribe: Skyone-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe: Skyone-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List owner: Skyone-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Skyone URL: http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/Skyone Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/