Inside Air Traffic Control: The Hidden Heroes of the Air | FULL DOCUMENTARY
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Every day more than ninety thousand commercial flights take off around the world. Ninety thousand flights that need to be safely flown and guided from take-off to landing through every kind of weather. We all know the role of the pilots in air travel, but how many of us know anything about air traffic control?
And yet, their job is one of the most stressful in the world, their responsibility is huge. Every minute of every day air controllers hold the lives of thousands in their hands. They work in places that the public never visits.
At the heart of major control centres, this documentary will follow an Air France flight from take-off at New York's JFK - the world's busiest airspace - to its landing in Paris' Roissy Charles de Gaulle - Europe's second busiest airport. An exclusive in-depth investigation into the wild and secret world of the heroes of the air.
Documentary: Controlling the Skies
Directed by: Jon Kalina
Production: Idéacom International & Galerie Presse
#documentary #freedocumentary #skies #flights #trafficcontrol #plane
My sister is an ATC in an international airport. I'm always amazed to see how she and her colleagues efficiently perform under the enorm stress and strain of air traffic increasing by the year, despite the pandemic when we all thought flying might be of the past. They are heroes! 🎉
@@cdg1111
Truth spoken....thank you!
Nobody thought flying would be a thing of the past. Especially air traffic controllers. If anyone knew the importance of returning to normal it’s them. I’m sure she and her colleagues are efficient and amazing. But yeah. Nobody thought flying would decline or go away.
Mate I'm a taxi cab operator. I often fuck that up . ATC has to be a special.kind of person. 👏🙌👏❤
@@cdg1111 I used to work Tower at Tamiami Airport in the 90s. At that time it was considered one of the busiest airports in the country. Lots of training operations. Lots of inexperienced student solos. It was a total ballet. As I got older they sent me to Miami Center so I can slow down a little. Please tell your sister I send my regards
Thank you for doing us controllers justice with this documentary. Always good to hear from the legendary Kennedy Steve.
The man, the legend, Kennedy Steve!
OMG KENNEDY STEVE
Do you want to go to LAX at 10,000 feet? 😂😂😂😂😂
Was just about to say this 😂🔥🔥
"They speak a bizarre language". Followed by a controller talking in French.
Comedy editing
just one story from my country, indonesia, we also have our hero atc here. his name was anthonius gunawan agung. he worked as atc at mutiara sis-al jufri airport (plw/waff) at palu city, sulawesi island. during palu earthquake & tsunami disaster on 29th of september 2018 (magnitude 7.4), he guided batik air a320 (id-6231) to take off and stayed at his post until the plane was safely airborne. however due to the tower was already damaged, he jumped from 4 stories tower for his own safety. but unfortunately he died from his injury. you can google his name and his story, although most of the article is in bahasa indonesia.
Better than most presentations on ATC I've seen. Retired ATC here.
Thank you for your service...😊.
The man, the myth, the legend, the voice, the comedian, the RUclips sensation Kennedy Steve! Guessing this was filled not too long before he retired from JFK Airwaves.
I miss the guy... he was really producing some good laughs while being an excellent controller.
A real legend that has no equal.
Kennedy Steve is the man. His composure is remarkable, and his humor renowned. He was made for that work.
Thank you to all ATC folks...you guys rock! God bless each and everyone of you ❤
I miss working at Miami Center so badly, and I dream about it all the time. It was a delight and a nightmare at the same time
When do planes use Nassau Center instead of Miami Center?
@ChrisCokeRobinson Hello chris, to give you a simple answer, is that Miami Center owns all the airspace 6,000 ft and above. If you're below 6K, you're talking to Nassau radio. Does that answer your question?
As a longtime aviation enthusiast, I have deep respect for the work of the Air Traffic Controllers, especially long after 9/11 - and much of the content of this documentary is highly accurate
Great documentary!!! Thank you for producing this.....
Thank you to all at ATC.
Not a job I could do or want to do. Kudos to the ones that do it.
That guy Thomas is really passionate about his job! I admire that guy!
Great documentary! I like the presentation and how you tell the story by following a flight but from the perspective of air traffic, very clever! And also Kennedy Steve!! He already retired, don't know when you did this documentary. Nevertheless, great job! I always admired air traffic controllers and aviation in general.
That was very interesting, thank you
Thank you for watching ☺
My good late friend Bill J. Cooper from DFW center told me once when he entered training classes for ATC. The instructor started the first day by saying Welcome to Air Traffic Control training where you will learn this fact or go home now. Doctors and surgeons. Police officers and even judges. God himself. Make mistakes. But you cannot make mistakes. Living with the death of hundreds of innocent lives in one shift is more than any human should ever shoulder. So we do not make mistakes. Ever.
There has been (in the US anyways) some pretty disturbing close calls. 95% have been ground or tower controllers. Either pilots are not listening or controllers workload has increased. Near misses at intersecting runways, go arounds because spacing was too tight. Wrong taxi instrutions, and the list goes on. Some say it's just a matter of time before something *does* happen. Not all the blame goes to ATC. Airlines have become complacent. How does a main tire just fall of the aircraft on take off? Happened twice so far. I know ATC works hard and I applaud them for thier work. And...there hasn't been anybody more pleasurable to listen to _Kennedy Steve_
Im feeling palpitations just from watching this video!!!😮
My uncle was an Air Traffic controller PATCO until Reagan fired those guys .
Their service is essential they cannot go on strike 😮
@@jorgecruzseda7551 well I guess when you've had enough....you do something about it
@@jorgecruzseda7551that's why they should not be treated like shit.....
Reagan was a moron for many reasons. THIS one angered me so much when I heard he'd said, "Get back to work, or you're all fired" instead of seeing the real reasons as to *why* they went on strike in the first place that I want to eat tree bark. I know they weren't technically allowed to go on strike, but when the working conditions are so horrible that you say, "screw it" to that rule despite knowing the repercussions, then you *know* things are bad.
You have to be incredibly intelligent to be an ATC. These are not stupid people. The fact that they went on strike in the first place tells me that they'd weighed the pros and cons, considered the outcomes of different scenarios - as they do for their job - and STILL chose to go on strike.
That alone is a big 'ol a red flag that things are BAD.
Those problems needed to be remedied immediately, instead of beating up those crying out for help if they didn't shut up and get back to work.
I know steps have been taken since then - which is great - but from my limited knowledge, a lot more still needs to be done to protect the physical and mental health of ATCs.
The last thing I ever want is for the people in charge of thousands of lives a day to be burned out, exhausted, stressed, overworked, underpaid, understaffed, not disclosing medical conditions and thus not taking medications they need to deal with all of that due to the threat of losing their medical - thus their job - if they did, and drinking to compensate.
Much like how I'd rather the pilot flying my plane be on their antidepressants, anti anxiety, or ADHD meds that they need in order to control their focus, I'd rather the ATCs be on their meds instead of medicating with their weight in coffee, and shots of Jack Daniels.
Biased towards US CND n french atc but some how, it hovered over Shannon/Swannic (Irish n UK atc ) then just came into french area control..!! 😂😂
A clip or two from Boston Center and London ACC would have been nice. That said, this is one of the better presentations I've seen.
Ronald Reagan didn't give a crap what air traffic controllers go thru.
That's republicans for ya
Interesting to shed some light on the most unknown part of aviation.
One minor criticism from me: to say the Concorde (Air France 4590) disaster was caused by debris on the runway is misleading. Yes, that was part of the "Swiss cheese", but the captain must take a large part of the responsibility because the plane was too heavy due to overloading anyway.
The captain doesn’t load the plane. Also being too heavy didn’t cause a fire.
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 The captain signs the weight and balance sheet anyway
@@sanantonio855 and the weight and balance sheet didn’t say it was over weight
flights to/from the UK should go to eurocontrol too.
It was a wonderful documentary introduced about Air Traffic controllers around the world 🌎. Documentary appreciated theirs most important and dangerous duties ( working) behind digital electronics devices + space Satalite 🛰connection for controlling safety movement of planes within global aire lines above the earth surface.
Can I ask you. How is a random route oceanic clearence decided?
From which side? Dispatch/airline side, they look at the winds and find the most fuel efficient/quickest way to get there. From ATC side, we give a route that meets agreements with other facilities, and is separated from other aircraft. We use a system that probes the flight for conflicts and we can manipulate the route until it is conflict free and still makes sense for where they are going. Though for the most part we will look at altitude options first over reroutes, because their dispatch will have done much more work on making sure they are hitting the wind they want, missing weather and other factors.
Здравейте на всички граждани и банкови системи 2025 1 Брикс ок😊😊😊
What a lot of BS. Thirty plus years of ATC experience on three continents and I probably only saved a life or two. Never a hero. US ATC in the major capitals seems to be an underfunded basket case.
Why are the French ATC not speaking English, same goes for the two French pilots?
They must be able to speak English!!!!!
We speak French when the pilot calls us in French, English when the pilot calls us in English. I personally think it should be 100% English for situational awareness, but it is how it is.
Ofc they are able. But they are pround frech ^^
It would help everyone with situational awareness though, if on the radio they only spoke English :)
.
Stopped watching after 5min. Several stupid people answers what ATC do?!?😂 What kinda docu is that?!🤡
Your loss. The docu is pretty good. Acutally I find it quite interesting how little people know about ATC ;)
19:40
First step for the Single European Sky is to ensure that French and Spanish controllers talk in English to ALL aircraft. Other pilots need to hear and understand these interactions, pilot/ATC, in order to be situationally aware.
Kennedy Steve!!! so nice to see you again, sir
OMG, that's Kennedy Steve!
When was this actually made? Kennedy Steve retired quite a while ago.....
when the plane was taxiing to the gate next gate showed a Air France 747. Air France retired its last 747 in 2016. So the doco was made some time ago.
@@markofsatan9617 Most sources say he retired in 2017.
Must be several years ago, at least pre-pandemic. You also see many since retired aircraft types :)
@@matthiashartge5520 I did look it up, Steve retired in 2017. What a guy. If you're not familiar with Boston John, check him out. Outstanding character. He's not fantastic looking, but the women go crazy over him-practically the "pantie throwing" type thing.
By the way, Steve said he became an ATC because he wanted a job less stressful than being a stockbroker, which was his former career.
37:55 (Slight paraphrasing): "Well, because the concord was so eye-catching with such a long nose, I said it could take off. Screw the rules, just go for it, you long nose wonderful thing." 💥🚒
Just joking; he did an amazing job to keep working after such a horrific tragedy beyond his control. The translators just made him sound like a dick.
This is great! I’ve become obsessed with aviation lately and this doc is awesome. :)
I'm a retired Air Traffic Controller and I'm very happy to be free from the air traffic.
Good luck guys..
Well done documentary.....ATC workers are behind the scenes unsung HEROS..
This man, Mr. Abraham, keeps generalizing by saying “no one knows” and “everyone does not know.” Sorry Sir, but that is not the truth. The few people surveyed for this piece fails to represent “everyone.” The people I know, in my native NYC area, give HUGE PROPS to Air Traffic Controllers (ATC).
Listen, simply drive from Newark, NJ to Elizabeth, NJ along the commonly congested I-95 or the 1 & 9 horrific corridor to Linden, NJ and you WILL KNOW the ATC’s are kicking BUTT by keeping those planes safely flying!🛫👐✈️
And the French being the French, do not speak English, but French with their local carriers....
Good on you getting Kennedy Steve in this. He's the GOAT.
I recognized his voice immediately without even seeing his face.
It's his fault that I even learned the aviation language. I wanted to know what he was saying so I could understand the jokes. Sure enough, the more I learned, the funnier they got. :D Thanks to him and my need to understand, I know what they're saying. :)
There are a lot of Steve's jokes that I love. His "Face the front, sir" is in the top 5, along with "Ground?" "...Plane?"
My favorite has to be when he told an airbus to wait for a single engine Cessna to go by before it could taxi, and issued a calm warning to the airbus, "caution: propwash." :D
Once I learned the reason why this was funny, I about died laughing.
I'll listen in to my local international airport on LiveATC. I've come to recognize the voices, but I don't know anyone in that tower personally. I wish I did. There's one guy who's voice and personality are pleasant to listen to. I'm always happy when I catch him by chance when tuning in.
A pilot I know told me that my dream of flying wasn't dead due to my age and other factors of life. I could still fly. So, for the first time in my life, getting my pilots license became an achievable reality. I've been in ground school for a couple of months, and I am learning so much. But there is a TON of information to learn, so this is going to take a long time.
In studying, I've also learned bits of what ATCs endure, and It Is ROUGH on multiple levels. My God, how they deal with all of that, I have no idea. I'd crack on day 1.
I already respected them due to the nature of their job, but that respect level went WAY up.
That is a job I could NEVER do even in my wildest dreams. It truly takes a specific type of person to become an Air Traffic Controller.
I'd much, much rather be a pilot.
Kudos to you for following your dream of being a pilot ! You'll be so glad you pushed through the difficult training when you will get your pilots license 🌟✈
Superb Documentary on the ATC heroes working day and night to keep the "sky city" safe.
I've been an ATC for 12 years. This is a decent documentary. Well done.
Interesting how much French they speak even at CDG ^^
Who is Kennedy Steve? A bad day to quit sniffing glue joke?
Poor Thomas is getting battered by his wife about his controlling, lol.
Look at that air traffic, then wonder why we have global warming.
36:57 she's beautiful. I could listen to that accent all day.
Kennedy Steve. 😂😂😂😂
AI will take over this role soon enough.
A very old documentary indeed. The Air France 777 (F-gspv) 45.08 was decommissioned in 2021 and not at Air France since 2014.
using term heros rather loosely
Excellent documentary, very informative and precise.
Thank you ! ☺
All the ones i ever met were total control freaks in both their personal and professional lives. Not very attractive.
Air traffic controllers, are more important than aircraft pilots.
I can understand their language
Why so much french?
Because apparently, this was originally a French documentary.
My old lady works in ATC and she can fill 3 Kotex overnight pads during one shift!
Kennedy Steve ! Kennedy Steve!