Aborted landings/Go-Arounds

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The suggestion to switch off a system at certain times is not related to your 'right to know' - when it comes to listening in to the comms, you have no rights: Sorry to be so blunt.

An airline chooses to install a system for your entertainment: It also chooses the content and availability, just as on any other IFE channel. You have no 'right' to access IFE information, although if the IFE is unavailable on any given sector, you have the right to complain to an airline.

The issue, anyway, is not about an intention to keep you, or anybody else 'in the dark'. The issue is that an event, which may be un-challenging to those trained to fly, may be perceived as being something worse than it actually is by those who are not. Your personal experience level may be quite high, but that may not be the case for others, and this will inevitably mean that there will be varying levels of apprehension. Your desire for visibility of the proceedings may not be matched by others. Besides, once in posession of your own (probably faulty) assesment of the ongoing event - what are you going to do with it? Offer advice? Assist in some way? Phone your lawyer?