airplane bathroom locks (and greetings from Norway)

[DJ Jackalope]

Re: airplane bathroom locks (and greetings from Norway)

Also to help release the frail/confused who require assistance,

Ok, so when trying for the mile high club, do not look frail or confused upon entry into the bathroom.

[Thorn]

Re: airplane bathroom locks (and greetings from Norway)

Ok, so when trying for the mile high club, do not look frail or confused upon entry into the bathroom.

Jeez, if you going to do that, I hope you aren't frail. Let's face it, the size of those restrooms dictates some athletic contortions.

Or so I hear...

[renderman]

Re: airplane bathroom locks (and greetings from Norway)

what sort of a radio would be used? i see advice online recommending the range of 118.0 to 135.975 MHz. is that just a basic FM receiver operating outside of the normal entertainment radio frequencies?

Dude if you wanted to listen in, you should have asked me, I had my scanner in the bag in the overhead bin!

Might not have been a good idea to set that up given our drunken state though.

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: airplane bathroom locks (and greetings from Norway)

the size of those restrooms dictates some athletic contortions.

totally. still... fun to try, all the same, wouldn't you say, render?

Dude if you wanted to listen in, you should have asked me, I had my scanner in the bag in the overhead bin! Might not have been a good idea to set that up given our drunken state though.

heh... it was not a good idea. wasn't that why we decided to wind up in the bathroom? i'd need someone as slim as you to pull it off given my own size and the phone-booth nature of those restrooms.

[0x58]

Re: airplane bathroom locks (and greetings from Norway)

I brought my Yaesu VX-6r on-board with me. I had my ham radio license with me, which came in handy when I tried to explain to the TSA agent why I had a "walkie talkie" with me.

I started out listening in on outbound traffic at PHX airport. When I boarded the plane the pilot was greeting people, so with my HAM license out I asked him what our tail number would be for this flight, and we had a good discussion about radios, him being a HAM himself (owns two radios)! So once I got the number I just followed the announcements for switching to the various frequencies. I was flying business at the time, so when he came out to go to the bathroom he saw me sitting there and came over and asked how I was doing.

At first the passenger sitting next to me looked worried when I had my radio out, but when the pilot came over and talked to me he was put at ease. The passenger next to me was a really nice guy too, was an engineer worked at a metal shop. Had been writing control systems for big laser cutting machines. We ended up talking about micro controllers and how to program them, the different languages, new chips that are being created.

Would I suggest just anyone to start listening in on the air-traffic frequencies? Not unless you know at least some of the lingo and can follow what is going on. Also, you may get hassled for having a portable radio out. If cell phones can cause interference with their 500-1000 mW output, my 5 W radio can do a lot more damage! Also, certain airline companies have the airline traffic control channel on their headset output. So you can just turn to channel 15 (Continental) and you can listen in. This has to be turned on by the pilots though, and sometimes they won't.