I was on my first solo cross country flying into Ottawa Int. My biggest concern was not screwing up on the radio. When I radioed in 30 miles out, the controller responded, not with the normal, but simply stated: "Delta, November, Alpha, squak ident." I did and he instructed me to descend to 2000 at a heading of 30 degrees, to which I followed. Seconds later, he blurted out about 8 separate instructions to the major airliners on approach. Before anyone could confirm their individual instructions, he came back on and stated: "Sorry guys, that's not going to work. Give me a sec." Yes, we all got in safely with new instructions. These guys in less than one hour were the equivalency of 8 hours of hard labour and they will not put you in a dangerous situation. My hat is off to all of them whether approach, departure or ground.
I admire this guy so much, so much patience, its not easy to deal with so many planes at the same time, let alone all those distracted pilots who dont follow instructions and thus creating a complete mess.. I am an ATC at a small airdrome and I do sometimes get stressed by way fewer planes , but jfk is another level
At first I was thinking this guy's an idiot then he sits silent for a minute and boom gets the entire line moving without incident and my draw basically dropped.
Actually this was probably a regular day for ATC at JFK pre pandemic. Especially during peak times, when all airlines were trying to have a flight leave at 6pm.
Make more of these with some other funny ATC conversations... This kinda visualisation with the captions AND a map is epic and helps when learning to understand ATC language :D...
Man I'm too ADD for being an air traffic controller... I'll probably have planes crashing into each other, forgetting a plane still in a holding pattern and crashing because he ran out of fuel 😂😂
We don't need your disclaimer, thank you. You've done a helluva job and everyone who knows anything about airplanes understands that shit does, indeed, happen all too often!
When in flight training I was permitted time in the BFI tower to watch the proceedings - and later knew someone who worked at Seattle Center and had a first class tour of the place. Controllers are superb folks (99.9%) who manage a herd of cats with aplomb. Well done. I enjoyed this clip - it is nice to see the map.
sure did. the conversations are great to follow but with the view on it ads to the thing, again great job.. hope to see more, allthough it's a hell of a job to make it ;)
Wow, this video is amazing! I've listened to this ATC conversations before but having the visualizations make it so much more clearer. I think you did a great job, are you considering making any more of these?
Love the way this is presented. as someone who only flies out of small regional fields it's a helpful learning tool for American procedures and int. airport charts :) subbed
There's a saying for pilots: "They don't die, they just fly higher". I once overheard a friend (ATC) say: "We don't die either, we just control upper airspace". May your friend rest in peace, Sir.
Sorry for your loss, too. He wasn't a smoker sir? I know you can get cancer virtually in any tissue or even bone area of the body, but that one sounds about as rare as ear cancer. Sad
The all time best lines : ATC : Delta 929 just follow the Hawker, (just when he tought he would have clarified the whole mess), and then the Delta 929 says : OK, well the Hawker is 2 planes in front of us... cracks me up every time even after 20 years or so :-)
wow. ive listened to this convo before & seeing the runway made it so much better. to actually "see" the planes & how the ATC sees them is aaaaaaahmazing! thnk u very much for sharing!
Anyone know of similar videos with the visual of planes taxiing? REALLY ENJOYED THIS VIDEO & WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE!! Lots of respect to the ATC's out there.
Thank you very much sir! I would do something like this again if I find some ATC recording that has so much chaos in it that it needs to be kinda "splitted" and needs a visualization. Thanks a lot,though! :)
No thank you! Really appreciated the effort to make the video! :-) Been watching (listening) to videos of ATC for the past few days(In bed with the flu) & this really helped understand what was happening visually. I've been using airport diagrams from the FAA website to figure out some of the more complex videos & its a pain.
yeah thats kinda how i ended up doing that video :D was listening to it, in bed, sick :D but got up and worked a bit and as the vid was finished i was okay again :D
This controller is hysterical and I love his New York accent! He does an amazing job with professionalism, sarcasm and humor! Does anyone know this guys name? He should have is own RUclips channel.
Makes me wonder what was being said when my flight arrived early, gate was not yet available, then the plane broke at the gate. We got moved twice on the tarmac before a new gate was assigned.
Thanks for gathering these, adding transcript, and planes on diagram. That was a lot of work. This is so funny because it is real. Nice that the controller plays the hand he is dealt and keeps the planes moving safely.
That 3rd issue was nuts. Props to that guy for managing to clear everything up. those jetblues got him all fumbling them trying to figure out who's where and what.
Nothing to worry about, except DELAYS! Arrival and departure delays if your flight is any time after 12ish. Nothing unsafe here, just a traffic jam he has problems getting resolved when 10 planes depart at the same time.
Imagine playing Tetris over the radio, you don't see the board, don't see the blocks, with several blocks falling at once, and they sometimes mishear what you tell them to do, or do things out of their own initiative.
Mid 90s on Dixie KATL a Delta heavy told ground that Delta has a schedule and ask the Fokker F-28 in front if he could stop riding his brakes. The F-28 has a speed brake mounted on the tail. The Fokker opened the speedbrake/clamshell and made a farting noise. It was dead silence and then then ground could not keep his composure.
Omg, this ATC is awesome! '' you guys should come up here one day'' awesome said! it must be pretty stressed working as an atc there! Awesome work m8! Please do more of this! Really enjoyed! Good job! Welcome back btw! ;)
As he was lining everyone up I was relating to the first day of school as a teacher trying to teach Kindergartners how to line up, where to stand, what to do, what not to do, what to do next, and then wondering where Johnny disappeared to(in a cubby next to the line because he felt that was more important)…let’s try this again. 🤦🏽♀️ 😂
$120K a year average is not enough? It's stressful, but there are more stressful (and labor intensive) jobs that people need to get paid more for which don't offer breaks every 2 hours.
***** No doubt, I agree they have a lot of responsibility. So do medics who don't get paid even a 1/4 of that saving the lives of accident/shooting/medical victims, teachers, police officers and many more jobs that have responsibilities equal to or greater than this...and again only making $30K a year.
***** and still, those accidents happen based on human faults. Just because someone would earn 100K more would't make accidents less happen. I can guarantee you that. You do this job because you like the job. If you need a big salary to prevent accidents from happening then when you earn over 120K a year, you have no right to be doing this job.
***** Paying more for a job can make accidents less prone to happening. I get your point, and if all humans we're equal it could be true, but they're not. Generally, and not always, when you pay more for a job it becomes an option for those who have a great deal of experience and education, instead of them going to another similar but higher paying job.
DJ Mindchime The job isn't easy to learn. It takes years of learning tons of very minor details that you cannot leave out. Its a different line of work. What you listen to is only a small portion of what the average person knows about ATC.
6:25 I love how ATC's so befuddled that he didn't even finish saying "Aitalia" 10:32 x3 JetBlue's "eh??????" when ATC asked for callsign.. wonder how ATC forgot so fast lol The ATC sounds pretty exasperated but still kept his calm.. with a bit of humor.. no Kennedy Steve, but still better than others o-o
Extreme Patience and resolve.. ATC Departures And Arrival Got nothing on Ground Control. Ground control guys Got pressure.. At least at Major Airports. Great work ATC professionals. You really Earn your salary..
Someone 'Lost the Picture' ! I have worked JFK Ground Control when I was an Air Traffic Controller in the 80's. THE most difficult ATC position to learn in the FAA!....
![[REAL ATC] MD-80 DELTA CRASH at La Guardia Airport](/img/1.gif)
That third one was hilarious. Every time he thinks he's figured out who and where everybody is, another wild Jetblue appears!
Wolfeson28 cool how once he figured out where everyone was it all clicked and he had them moving.
we need ADS-B on the ground
There is ADS-B on the ground, it's called ASDE-X, which is now at JFK. Hurray!
I hope he did finally make it to duty-free in the end.
Jetblue cause ATC become angry
"*sigh* this... you can't.... yah right..." that's the most NY statement I've ever heard (as someone from the area).
I was on my first solo cross country flying into Ottawa Int. My biggest concern was not screwing up on the radio. When I radioed in 30 miles out, the controller responded, not with the normal, but simply stated: "Delta, November, Alpha, squak ident." I did and he instructed me to descend to 2000 at a heading of 30 degrees, to which I followed. Seconds later, he blurted out about 8 separate instructions to the major airliners on approach. Before anyone could confirm their individual instructions, he came back on and stated: "Sorry guys, that's not going to work. Give me a sec." Yes, we all got in safely with new instructions. These guys in less than one hour were the equivalency of 8 hours of hard labour and they will not put you in a dangerous situation. My hat is off to all of them whether approach, departure or ground.
"You can't just do... you can't just do that..." *sigh* -- Classic!
whirl tech leeeeeroyyyyyy jeeeeeennnnnkiiiinnnssss
Controller (off-mike): "I'm surrounded by JetBlues!"
I wanted to cheer when he got everyone in a line and on their way. Level completed. Round 2!
+Ashley isAwesome This is by far the best comment I have found on RUclips! LOL
+Ashley isAwesome I don't want to sound like advertising but there is a very good mobile atc game in which you get to do this kind of stuff.
Lol, too stressful!
"you guys should really come up here and do this one day." Greatest line ever from controller
I admire this guy so much, so much patience, its not easy to deal with so many planes at the same time, let alone all those distracted pilots who dont follow instructions and thus creating a complete mess.. I am an ATC at a small airdrome and I do sometimes get stressed by way fewer planes , but jfk is another level
Someone should make a TV show outta these. Brilliant/hilarious to watch, and massive respect for ATC, they really do have a tough time :P
+FleeC Thanks for the compliment and even more for watching!
+Octen HBO could, realistically, do that... I am sure it would place well on a Friday evening...
Americas Next Top ATC. 15 Contestants battle it out to see who gets the chance of a lifetime...
replying to a 2 year old comment. you could watch Pushing Tin, great movie about ATC
Octen check out F is for Family
The guys cracking up in the background.. "You're unable to do everything on that plane of yours sir.." Priceless.
"Bravo short of victor"
"Yeah.... right"
"..."
"wh- who is bravo short of victor?!!? o.O"
gets me every time...
At first I was thinking this guy's an idiot then he sits silent for a minute and boom gets the entire line moving without incident and my draw basically dropped.
"Jesus Jetblue" sums it up pretty well.
10:20 and you're where, and you're what, short of who?
JFK is such a disaster
Whenever I think I’m having a bad day I listen to this
Haha damnit JetBlue! "You just can't.... you just can't do that!" lol. I love how the ATC guy said that. He sounded like he was in disbelief.
Seeing #3 clear out like that was absolutely incredible. Massive props to this dude
At JFK it's never IDLE and always WILD.
ATC job looks damn tough! Especially in such a busy airport!
I love this pun lol
I see what you did there.
Nice to know that a few of us remember when JFK was once both, "Idle and Wild" (Idlewild). Thanks for the memories!
There aren't even a couple hours in the wee AM hours where it's n ot that busy? Wow
The visual representation works wonderfully! With it and the subtitles, it's much easier to understand the situation!
Actually this was probably a regular day for ATC at JFK pre pandemic. Especially during peak times, when all airlines were trying to have a flight leave at 6pm.
GND: Follow the Hawker
DAL929: Ok, Well... the hawker is two planes in front of us.
GND: Great.
If this guy quit his job he could definitely do a gig as Voice Over for Peter Griffin...
You must be from the south. Southerners have a tough time distinguishing NY accents from New England accents.
Make more of these with some other funny ATC conversations... This kinda visualisation with the captions AND a map is epic and helps when learning to understand ATC language :D...
LOL "Air France 011 Heavy if you wanna push in the alleyway that's.... call your ramp for that".
Man I'm too ADD for being an air traffic controller... I'll probably have planes crashing into each other, forgetting a plane still in a holding pattern and crashing because he ran out of fuel 😂😂
We don't need your disclaimer, thank you. You've done a helluva job and everyone who knows anything about airplanes understands that shit does, indeed, happen all too often!
+Tom Foyle Thank you very much for watching!
i know im late as fuck but i actually like the visual representation. I makes things so much better
When in flight training I was permitted time in the BFI tower to watch the proceedings - and later knew someone who worked at Seattle Center and had a first class tour of the place. Controllers are superb folks (99.9%) who manage a herd of cats with aplomb. Well done. I enjoyed this clip - it is nice to see the map.
In aviation, with the meowing... literally a herd of cats
was listening to this just yesterday but with this on screen it makes a bit more sence, thanks for that!
glad you liked it!
sure did. the conversations are great to follow but with the view on it ads to the thing, again great job.. hope to see more, allthough it's a hell of a job to make it ;)
it is, you're right :)
“Ya fallowed da embry-AIR?”
That ground controller really had a BAAAAAAAAAD Day
This controller knows his shit.
Wow, this video is amazing! I've listened to this ATC conversations before but having the visualizations make it so much more clearer. I think you did a great job, are you considering making any more of these?
I appreciate these simple yet helpful visualizations of the situation
Love the way this is presented. as someone who only flies out of small regional fields it's a helpful learning tool for American procedures and int. airport charts :) subbed
I had a close friend who was a controller. No joke, he died of vocal chord cancer. Now I see why.
If that is true I am very sorry for your loss! It always hits the best people out there.
His name was Josh and he was a member of my church. I miss him dearly.
There's a saying for pilots: "They don't die, they just fly higher". I once overheard a friend (ATC) say: "We don't die either, we just control upper airspace". May your friend rest in peace, Sir.
Sorry for your loss, too. He wasn't a smoker sir? I know you can get cancer virtually in any tissue or even bone area of the body, but that one sounds about as rare as ear cancer. Sad
@@FSVectors 😭
The all time best lines : ATC : Delta 929 just follow the Hawker, (just when he tought he would have clarified the whole mess), and then the Delta 929 says : OK, well the Hawker is 2 planes in front of us... cracks me up every time even after 20 years or so :-)
wow. ive listened to this convo before & seeing the runway made it so much better. to actually "see" the planes & how the ATC sees them is aaaaaaahmazing!
thnk u very much for sharing!
thank YOU for watching!
I pissed myself :') I love this controller, the Jetblue 1069 first transmission "guys this takes so much energy" omg love thisss
Steve Abrams would've cleared this clusterfuck in a heartbeat!
Steve Abraham, but yea!
So would Trump!!
Yup he would lol
Steve that is lol
the clusterfuck would never have happened if steve was the controller
XD the frustration in the controller's voice is so funny.
Anyone know of similar videos with the visual of planes taxiing? REALLY ENJOYED THIS VIDEO & WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE!! Lots of respect to the ATC's out there.
Thank you very much sir! I would do something like this again if I find some ATC recording that has so much chaos in it that it needs to be kinda "splitted" and needs a visualization. Thanks a lot,though! :)
No thank you! Really appreciated the effort to make the video! :-) Been watching (listening) to videos of ATC for the past few days(In bed with the flu) & this really helped understand what was happening visually. I've been using airport diagrams from the FAA website to figure out some of the more complex videos & its a pain.
yeah thats kinda how i ended up doing that video :D was listening to it, in bed, sick :D but got up and worked a bit and as the vid was finished i was okay again :D
This controller is hysterical and I love his New York accent! He does an amazing job with professionalism, sarcasm and humor! Does anyone know this guys name? He should have is own RUclips channel.
JFK has a knack for staffing controllers with a lot of personality
i randomly thought about this the other day YEARS after I saw it last, had to find it again hahaha
The ATC-Ground kinda speaks like Petter Griffin.
Well it is the northeast
This.....this right here.
This is a nice visualization!!
Cats everywhere, begin herding NOW!
Actually Jetblue 35 was on Bravo short of Victor not Victor-Alpha, and thats why the controller went angry lol
Makes me wonder what was being said when my flight arrived early, gate was not yet available, then the plane broke at the gate. We got moved twice on the tarmac before a new gate was assigned.
Man, talk about a pressure cooker. Good job guys.
Thank everyone for almost a 70000!
87.284 :D
Thanks for gathering these, adding transcript, and planes on diagram. That was a lot of work. This is so funny because it is real. Nice that the controller plays the hand he is dealt and keeps the planes moving safely.
You definitely should do more of these!! Loved it!!
200,000 now
200,000 now
Great idea and project! It was great to see a visualization of the mess.
I love that controller, funny and professional.
That 3rd issue was nuts. Props to that guy for managing to clear everything up. those jetblues got him all fumbling them trying to figure out who's where and what.
You can’t just… you can’t just do that… 😢😂
I was just saying, I wish someone could do a live diagram of everything moving! you should do more! 👏🏾
I love the visuals. I can understand this better would love to see more like this.
jetblue screwing up everything ☠️
Such a good job thank you! Always have a map on other monitor, this kicks ass! Makes JFK automatic to listen to=)
Wow these are great!! Please post more like this.
That is frustratingly hard to watch. I don't know better other than situational awareness - asking for so many repeats is a big problem.
When you can hear him rearranging his plates as he tries to figure what order everyone is in.
My brain almost exploded just trying to figure out how they figure out what the hell to do.
Kind of worries me going into JFK...
Nothing to worry about, except DELAYS! Arrival and departure delays if your flight is any time after 12ish. Nothing unsafe here, just a traffic jam he has problems getting resolved when 10 planes depart at the same time.
ATC has their shit together, it's just a very stressful job due to the aircraft load.
JFK has never had a very serious incident, not recently anyway.
***** Depends how you define recent. Remember the Lufthansa and Egypt Air incident in 2011?
Hold on - wait ... Yup, okay, yup. Nope. I have no idea what's going on.
THANKS for the visualization. I understand a lot better now.
Derryck L
Imagine playing Tetris over the radio, you don't see the board, don't see the blocks, with several blocks falling at once, and they sometimes mishear what you tell them to do, or do things out of their own initiative.
jetblue everywhere
Oh I absolutelly loved this simulation, could you please do more of them
Bloody good job man. Well done!
+Robert Pearse Thank you Robert!
Mid 90s on Dixie KATL a Delta heavy told ground that Delta has a schedule and ask the Fokker F-28 in front if he could stop riding his brakes. The F-28 has a speed brake mounted on the tail. The Fokker opened the speedbrake/clamshell and made a farting noise. It was dead silence and then then ground could not keep his composure.
Great to see where the aircraft are and where they are going.
Omg, this ATC is awesome! '' you guys should come up here one day'' awesome said! it must be pretty stressed working as an atc there! Awesome work m8! Please do more of this! Really enjoyed! Good job! Welcome back btw! ;)
He also did a good job when he was working with Cactus 1549.
Good job, I worked 20 years doing airfield maintenance so I have a great deal of respect for controllers...
I would have a heart stop after 20 seconds. After 25 I would have a stroke. After 30 secs I would be dead.
Amazingly cool despite a controlled chaos.
Excellent job with the visualization, very entertaining to watch, good job.
Wow! Amazing video! Can't believe what it must be like to be a controller!
My favorite controller!!
I hope he never change his job :)
Awesome with the visuals, thank you sir )) Subscribed.
Watching this one with the illustrations takes it to another level. A real `reality show' waiting to happen :-)
Thanks for all the effort you put into this.
As he was lining everyone up I was relating to the first day of school as a teacher trying to teach Kindergartners how to line up, where to stand, what to do, what not to do, what to do next, and then wondering where Johnny disappeared to(in a cubby next to the line because he felt that was more important)…let’s try this again. 🤦🏽♀️ 😂
Cool video, It's the closest you can get to actually being a controller.
+Jack Jones Thanks for watching!
I love this controller.
These guys don't get payed enough, I bet.
$120K a year average is not enough? It's stressful, but there are more stressful (and labor intensive) jobs that people need to get paid more for which don't offer breaks every 2 hours.
*****
No doubt, I agree they have a lot of responsibility. So do medics who don't get paid even a 1/4 of that saving the lives of accident/shooting/medical victims, teachers, police officers and many more jobs that have responsibilities equal to or greater than this...and again only making $30K a year.
***** and still, those accidents happen based on human faults.
Just because someone would earn 100K more would't make accidents less happen. I can guarantee you that. You do this job because you like the job. If you need a big salary to prevent accidents from happening then when you earn over 120K a year, you have no right to be doing this job.
***** Paying more for a job can make accidents less prone to happening. I get your point, and if all humans we're equal it could be true, but they're not. Generally, and not always, when you pay more for a job it becomes an option for those who have a great deal of experience and education, instead of them going to another similar but higher paying job.
DJ Mindchime
The job isn't easy to learn. It takes years of learning tons of very minor details that you cannot leave out. Its a different line of work. What you listen to is only a small portion of what the average person knows about ATC.
6:55 "you're abeam the alitalia" - little typo with "iberia" in there.
Funny transcript renderings here. Thank you veddy maach!
yh iknow i made that mistake...but shit happens :D
Jeez! I could never do that job! I thought automobile traffic was bad! This is crazy! Amazing job the ATC guy did!
The air traffic controller sounds like Peter Griffin lol 😜
I was waiting for the controller to say. You know what grinds my gears?
Honestly that first controller was probably the most chill JFK GND controller. Lucky they got him.
Isn't that the same atc throughout the whole video?
Frank? Frank Rizzo is that you? Rizzo - R-I-Z-Z-O
thats right fruitcake
6:25 I love how ATC's so befuddled that he didn't even finish saying "Aitalia"
10:32 x3 JetBlue's "eh??????" when ATC asked for callsign.. wonder how ATC forgot so fast lol
The ATC sounds pretty exasperated but still kept his calm.. with a bit of humor.. no Kennedy Steve, but still better than others o-o
All traffic controllers deserve far better credit and more recognition for their great job in keeping us safe.
keri caye what about the delivery?
8:59, that sing-song response of Delta 929 is so addicting lol
I defiantly don't wanna have to do this job lol.. dam
I actually really enjoyed this. Pity there aren't more...
Extreme Patience and resolve..
ATC Departures And Arrival Got nothing on Ground Control.
Ground control guys Got pressure..
At least at Major Airports.
Great work ATC professionals. You really Earn your salary..
Someone 'Lost the Picture' ! I have worked JFK Ground Control when I was an Air Traffic Controller in the 80's. THE most difficult ATC position to learn in the FAA!....
HOLY CRAP! GREAT JOB WITH VISUALIZATION !!! ²
This makes me glad i fly out of a mid size airport in oregon. Just looked at the chart for JFK. Going to have nightmares tonight.