Can you listen to ATC on a specific flight number?

[gawsd]

United allows (I think they still do) passengers to listen to a flight’s ATC communication for the duration of a flight. Is there a way to do the same thing via Live ATC by flight number? Ex: Say I’m on SWA 1243 and want to listen to the flight’s ATC from SAN-AUS. Is that possible?

Thanks.

[RonR]

United tapped into their on-board radios to provide ATC to their passengers.  With LiveATC you can tune in to a specific ATC frequency.  If you happen to know what frequency your flight is currently on and if LiveATC has coverage for that frequency, you can tune in and listen to your flight.  When ATC hands off your flight to the next ATC sector, you can tune in to that frequency if LiveATC covers it.  Unfortunately, you can't enter in a flight number and follow that flight from origin to destination.  Hope this helps.

[gawsd]

Thanks, Ron. Appreciate the quick response.

[KB4TEZ]

As far as listening "real" time, you couldn't, but you could plug in the Flight number into any number of flight tracking sites to see which reporting facility of the aircraft they are currently pinging.
Flightaware, AirNav, Flightradar24, etc.  Now it doesn't give you the EXACT center, or TRACON center they may be communicating with, but for example with Flightaware (pic attached), it helps narrow it down.  I've used that many times when putting together audio clips (most I know off the top of  my head) to see where they may be handed off too.

atleast seeing the reporting site, you can then pop that into LiveATC to see if there is any coverage in and around that site, or the Center frequency attached to it if there is coverage there.

Happy hunting !
John