ATC: Kennedy Steve organizing traffic chaos at JFK! - PART 1 

Delta passenger 44, you're my favorite passenger!

could a pilot get the plane to the proper gate at JFK*

Easier for an untrained passenger to land a plane than to taxi to the gate

good thing you'd never have to get the plane to a gate as a passenger. If you as an untrained passenger land the plane then they'll have you park it on the runway and tow the plane elsewhere.

With JFK if you don’t Know the layout...GOOD LUCK. If you’re an aero nerd you’ve memorized the layout of JFK, LHR. LAX, AND AMS. You’d also be the only one to volunteer to land it if it was that bad of a scenario,

I don’t understand the joke... Whats so funny

H Josh there’s no real joke. Alitalia was unreadable, so KS said “say again,” and Alitalia said “say again.” Its like if you’re with a friend and they say something, and you say what, then they say what, and you’re both stuck saying what.

@@effortlessawareness8778 Steve told the Alitalia to say again and the Alitalia pretty much went "no u", that's what the laughter was all about

It starts from 4:35 if anyone wonders

missed that the first time I listened.. x3 got me laughing too.

His levity must help defuse an otherwise stressful situation. I've never been into JFK (as a passenger) but I can only imagine the tangle of worms that JFK is.

He should be teaching in the FAA

​@chillylizerd unfortunately for us, he's off enjoying the rest of his life in retirement.

Boston John was notorious for flirting with the female pilots. When Steve was asked if he ever got in trouble for his banter, he said as long as he kept it clean and the planes were moving, they were good with it.

I just laughed out loud at that one.

@@merianharper9551 Me too. And repeated them, just because!

"Yeah you do!". Classic Kennedy Steve

+MegaMech I fail to get that gag >_

penwhale I think he meant that the airliner he was talking to was a cheap company that didn't actually own the airplane. Where as the airplanes ahead of him were big name brands that owned the jets. I'm assuming something along those lines. He was kinda referencing the 1% richest people in the world but replacing rich people with rich airline companies.

+MegaMech I think he actually meant a private jet, owned by a person. As far as I've listened to Kennedy Steve, he only uses "TOP 1%" for the richest people, so in private jets, like the here mentioned (I think) Hawker.

***** Oh, yea. I didn't think of private jets.

@@MegaMech nah when he refers to the 1% hes usually discussing stuff like Learjets or Citations, private jets basically.

Hi Kirothe, For me the attraction is the pleasure that comes from observing someone doing something they are very good at; sort of like watching a Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer play tennis.

Kennedy Steve is respectable entertainment. I wish I’d known about him sooner.

@@animula6908 - Exactly. My dad was a pilot, but i've never worked in the industry, and i'm addicted to Steve. Precision and humor....what's not to like?

Letting the planes go by, let the tugman push me 'round, into the blue again, after the pilot's gone... (at least one person got your reference there :)

Forwards, I hope? 😅

+endlessxjourney Vielen Dank für das Ansehen meines Videos! :)

+endlessxjourney I felt the absolute same, I almost spilt my coffee, that was so on the spot. Greetings from a fellow German ;)

gentlemen I'm part german and proud of it. Guten Morgen

@@givmi_more_w9251 I'm three-quarters German, can I express my pride as well? Guten tag!

He often says "Atlanta."

It might be fun to laminate the sheet and make some little airplanes with different logos and sizes and scoot them around. Nah, I would get lost and that sounds too much like work :-D

So underappreciated that Reagan fired them all.

I would never be able to keep left/right sorted out correctly.

Well, they are usually not moving aircrafts on the whole airport, just sections. At least that's how it's done in Germany

@@Tmanaz480 Hey, don't feel bad. My drill instructor used to threaten to make carry a small rock in my left hand so I could remember which way to go when she called out a command. I'm well over 60 now, and I still have trouble keeping it straight!

That is fir sure Kennedy is a great 👍 man doing his job🙏🏻

Yh XD

His art deserves it honestly

Or sometimes 119.1

+KrazyKerahcaz Games He IS good. But. :) There is quite a bit of editing out of silence here. H89SA can correct me, but from what I've heard from Steve before, I am guessing this is 30-40-50 minutes of ATC edited into 10

Ah, that's a good point cottagechskitty. Either way, it just sounds really busy with how well edited this is.

+cottagechskitty Actually, in this video I only cut some position reports, etc, so I had to split it in 2 parts, it was a real rush hour. :)

Seriously. I spit out my coffee when he said that. You could hear the Jetblue pilot is young and trying to sound cool and I thought "maybe Steve will have something to say." Nothing could have prepared me for "this exciting mission." I'm crying.

He clearly deals with Steve a lot XD Considering the size of JB's terminal at JFK, i believe it.

+Joe Champley I guess it was fun to work back then. :)

Keep in mind these videos have silences edited out

Some of these videos, yes. But some are also real time in rush hour recorded.

So easy to listen to. I'd do whatever she asked!

Ah yes. Speedbird40F @01:40 I was expecting to see a comment about her crystal clear cut glass diction. 😄

I've never heard a pilot ask for the explanation either !

It does seem like that, I wonder if there were situations where he was on an off period and they'd bring him on if it got too busy, but then again peak periods are pretty predictable, so he was probably rostered for them.

@@MrJaiimez yeah, it was called 9/11. I was working at sky harbor as a gate agent ( the person calling out which rows can board). When they called a ground stop for the entire country I was horrified but I can't even imagine what the ATC, the airline towers, the pilots and Ramp crews had to deal with. I was inside dealing with what to do with unaccompanied minors. Yes people could pay a fee and the flight attendants would make sure the kids were escorted from plane to plane if they were making a connection or waiting till each parent claimed their kid. There were kids going HOME to NY that day. It wasn't gonna happen. And EVERYONE was freaking out.

we'll yea but instead of driving he has a map of the airport in front of him with all the aircraft moving on it. He's also 400 feet above everyone else so he can see them if their transponders aren't on and did probably 6 or 7 years at another busy airport before getting this gig. These guys are the best of the best

They have been cloning humans since the mid 1930's.

+Hector Pasapera Thank you for watching! :)

I think the ability to speak with the accent is a hiring requirement at British Airways :)

@@mrz80 DEAD lol

+H89SA Huntington Long Island!

The Netherlands!!

The Netherlands!!!

From the Netherlands! Love these videos!

Germany :)

Kennedy Steve: hold my beer and watch this

+Andrew Hoyler Somehow I knew he's gonna answer like that. :D

HollisterLoBoiz, I heard it too, and the pilot really stressed *approved* in her read back. Such fun!

@@XalphYT Steve goes Shakespearean!

Oh my God. I didn't. I had to go back and find it. 1:40. Hilarious.

Check out my latest videos. I'll post more Kennedy Steve videos.

@haroldwilkes6608 they have videos of that and they are in real time

+Chris Addison Thank you very much! :)

Steve is retired!

+Tom Morley Thank you very much! :)

+Boutazzout Samir Thank you! :)

+AD77 I will. Thank you!

+Lincoln Ke Thank you very much for watching! :)

You are 100+ videos away from my last video. 😁

+Monica j Thank you for watching!

He’s retired!

It's already uploaded. :)

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