Air Traffic Control: Traffic chaos at JFK - PART 1 

SOOOO FUNNY!! I ADORE your sense of Humor....

dude, seriously dude..... what an epic sence of humor... you should be writing for SNL

😂😂😂

And add in the infamous Delta tug

Now _that_ was funny :)

ROFL! So true...........

Why is it in every conference call just as you think it's over someone always brings something pointless up right at the end keeping the call going for another 15 mins. I hate that guy....

The only good thing about those is you can mute yourself out lol i had an old school project manager (in his 60's at the time) who always said 'any meeting that lasts more than 40 minutes is a waste of time... I have to keep quoting him too often sadly 🙄

@@snezananovakovic6358 I've heard "any meeting that lasts more than 5 minutes is a waste of time"

@@wetlettuce4768 I simply reply with that being a pointless issue and leave.

Kennedy Steve and Boston John are the best

Brisk is a good description. Steve could handle situations like this one -- rush hour on a snowy day, with plows on the runways and planes needing to be de-iced before takeoff -- without losing his cool or even his sense of humor. The only thing that bothered him, as we see here is when a plane or other vehicle on the taxiways failed to respond when Steve called them. When he would say something like "Earth to Delta 2540" you knew he was starting to simmer. But even then, once he finally established contact, he didn't get nasty (as some controllers do) -- he just complained briefly that they hadn't responded before and then carried on with his instructions. He understood remarkably well that pilots are human and can make mistakes -- he'd make sure they knew that they'd caused a problem for him, but he didn't make it personal. Steve retired Sept. 1, 2017, and is much missed by the pilots, by his colleagues in the tower, by his fans here on RU-vid -- maybe even by the tug drivers! :-)

I'm picturing someone walking into ATC with a dozen puppies, and him going "oooh puppies!!"

Yes, Steve almost sounds cranky at one point, but still professional, and he kept his cool and had command of the situations. An hour at this pace would destroy a lesser man. After watching some of these videos I have acquired enormous respect for air traffic controllers!

Steve is my definition of a true “alpha male“. Never gets nasty, but oozes authority. A natural. (I really hate the alpha beta male bullshit that comes up at times. When it does, their idea of alpha just seems nasty to me....)

Right, and imo he's not funny, just very witty, very sharp.👍

psuro 😂😂😂

Oh Lord - I'm a caterer. Now I know how I sound in the middle of a function!

Rumor is he moved to managing a terminal at Kennedy, so he's still around, just mandatory retirement from ATC.

Imagine 8 hours of doing that!

Amazing.

I'm not entirely convinced Kennedy Steve isnt 30+ squirrels in a trenchcoat, and thats part of his secret.

@@CKOD Ever seen that postal office scene from Men In Black?

@goatnad6970 Actually when you listen to liveatc the instructions are a sometimes a few seconds apart from each other just like in this video

+s14duma Thank you! :)

AirChina 981 Kennedy ground?

TheDamienwashere Too funny!

Classic Steve, usually it's the tugs who get that treatment lol.

@@wetlettuce4768 except Tug2. That's his favorite.

s2v8377 The Terminal 1 Ramp however does give them a run for their money!!!

Fantastic comment! I had a good chuckle.

me to :=)

Omg

ROFL

I've been watching a lot of these videos and I noticed too, that the jokes are useful. They keep in mind a problem situation, or they warn in a way that is funny instead of nagging, or they point out an error in a way that means they won't make the same mistake again soon. I bet he had positive effects literally around the world.

Pretty sure that's Kennedy Steve.

@@ErzaRosenberg Yeah, heard some others and none other gets the traffic moving nearly as smoothly.

They really do rock. It is a beautiful thing!

Sounds like New York in general. Too bad I never had this smooth an experience at LaGuardia or Newark. Edit: damn you autocorrect.

riciy I wear really nice headphones and I can barely make anything out.

KrazyKerahcaz Games And I use these cheap ones goo.gl/28UQ2M, which are crap, to be honest.

Eww. You're a brave person.

LiveATC's feed is worse, much worse than what the ground controller hears. Trust me all his conversations are pretty much clear as a blue sky. It is the equipment that the person uses and the altitude at which the equipment catches the radio frequencies that worsen's the quality. Like if you notice the pattern: All the ground vehicles and small planes like EMB 135/145 are tough to listen to them

Raphael Aubry Well, I hope they all understand that this feed isn't directly from the Tower antenna. Guy who provides the feed for liveatc could be in the range of 10-15 km's from the JFK. Quality of the audio depends where you live and what's your surrounding.

One hour at a time and another for rest. Rotate to another position and repeat.

+Lauren Thank you for watching!

H89SA Thank you for posting it. I gives my family a little better idea of what I do all day. And night.

Hellcat Greg be played a traffic controller in United93.

Kayy Love You are sick my dear😁

That's because women like a controlling man. It's human nature

oyvey Yes, in control of himself and his responsibilities but not overbearing of others. 🙂

Ik right

Another way of saying Mad Dog, which is short for McDonnell-Douglas MD80/90

@@stevedietrich8936 Thank you. Heard it quite a bit, never bothered to look it up knowing I probably wouldn't find the answer.

Axatar No worries. I just wanted to show how amazing controller he is. :)

+H89SA Would u consider this a good career?

H89SA he is allot calmer than i would be good thing i am not ATC

Loïc AF No it is NOT! Before you come here to correct me, you better inform yourself. AIR FRANCE is the company NAME, AIRFRANS is an official callsign by the ICAO doc8585!

***** You probably figured it out by now... It's when 2 or more people step on the mic at the same time, and they block transmissions.

+H89SA Is that Kennedy Steve on the Mic

+H89SA thx for ur efforts ...these comm's r really helpful

He is now working the ramp

I noted that KS did not climb all over the snow team for not answering right away because he was on the other radio. Thanks for explaining from the inside.

Goiko47 Thank you for watching every video here. :)

crapper1 And I'd probably need psychological help after hours and hours of editing of those "30 minutes". :D

very true with all that syncing up and stuff but we love the work that you put into these videos

Skip the subtitles send 30 min let everyone see how hard it is to write them

macdaniel87 Thank you for watching. :)

Y-Y-E-E-S-S-S-S. THANK YOU,, Peewee! I said that in another video as Well. It IS So Much Easier...

Still waiting for Kennedy Steve's infamous Delta tug

Kevin Olson Thanks for watching! :)

Even at night?

Not irritated at all, just In Charge.

Nah, just busy and keeping on top of things.

Fred Morawiec No worries. Thank you for watching! :)

Swamp Rat And cars And tugs And rescue operations And...

It began with the McDonnell-Douglas MD-80, which was nocknamed Mad Dog. Its smaller variants, plus the MD-90s (and the Boeing 717 rebrand) naturally became Angry Puppies.

@@reynirheidbergstefansson2343 that's brilliant :). Thank you for taking the time