Air Traffic Control

One of the options for the in-flight radio-thing on United Airlines flights s to be able to listen to the Air Traffic Control radio. You can hear you flight asking for clearance to take off, and all that sorts of stuff. Its pretty durn nifty,

I was intrigued to hear that the tower gave our plane the choice of runways as we were leaving Honolulu. I guess it was a rather un-busy time or something.

And apparently Air Traffic Controllers use the phrase "Good Day" to denote that they're done talking, instead of something like "Over". I was amused. Especially because as we were leaving Denver a few days back there was a pilot on the radio who had quite the distinctive Australian accent.