ATC: Kennedy Steve organizing traffic chaos at JFK! - PART 2 

That's Kennedy Steve for ya!

Lmaoeven if I dont understand any of it 🤣🤣! Xx

He is the king of dad jokes!

I also have nothing to do with aviation at all, but witnessing clear concise communications with readbacks is very satisfying... I declare an emergency, send help

I love that they can cut up amidst chaos and remain completely professional

Uhh, can I ask you a question? Is HEAVY a call sign for 747?

@@human9458 "heavy" is a suffix added behind the plane's actual callsign for big planes (usually upwards of 136 tonnes) because they cause more wake turbulance when taking off, so tower has to wait for extra distance/time before the next plane can take off without running into the turbulence. You can read up more here: en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Aviation_call_signs Keep in mind I'm not a pilot or anything to do with aviation, just a rando that likes listening to these vids

I agree. I'm not a pilot nor an ATC (I don't even play games for FS's or ATC) but over the years of listening, I actually understand what he doing!

i wonder, is that his assistant or a fellow controller? either way hilarious

I’ve always thought the laughing was other pilots !! Never thought it was other people in the same room 🤦‍♀️

​​@@s4r4h51 It would have to be people in the same room. If it were other pilots they'd be blocking the transmission and you wouldn't hear Ground at all.

Yeah, my First Officer is napping so I have to steer the plane while taking notes with a pencil on my right knee.

That pilot didn't seem like he was working with a full deck...a few fries short of a Happy Meal

All Iberian pilots it seems are a lil on the slow side

I suppose they could've been given gate 4 in the meantime?

Yeah, I caught that too. Could have gotten him off the field a LOT faster if the pilot or F.O. was paying attention earlier!

Sounds like a language barrier to me

The reason we get stressed is because we see everything as a whole the netire time :) Steve takes one thing at a time and resolves it :)

Its called being on top of your game, in the zone and having a little fun with it

GoJet is based out of the STL area, that's why they use LINDBERGH as the call sign.

Sorry, i didnt get it. What does that mean?

@@fifthheaven Heavy as in heavy airplane and the joke was that steve meant he is fat too.

Even the pilot cracked up a little

Atheb41 he didn’t

Just imagine the next pilot calling him "Ground Heavy" 😉

+Julius Leonard (juju4396) I agree - also like "follow the angry puppy" He, he! :)

Do the top 1% not talk to Steve or are they edited out for privacy?

the top 1%er in question is involved way early in the recording, N7RC@@ArtStoneUS

​@@ArtStoneUS I assume the ones we get to hear are the funniest ones. The usual conversations are probably very bland and routine.

Ground not tower.

@@michaelhoffmann2891 KS is a master ATC and was recognized by his peers as such

@@michaelhoffmann2891 I was just paying KS a compliment. Not a reply to you.

He said in a interview that, where he used tô work, as long things where working they didn't mind what he was doing.

Difference between NY and Miami 😊

EVERYBODY misses Steve! The skies over NYC just aren't the same without his dulcet tones! There will never be another.😭 He was even better than Boston John, who's also retired, and Boston John was funny! Sigh......sadness washes over me.

I would buy a CB radio to listen to this man. How do we make this a thing?

@@lilbubs9251 if it happens , let us know what channel

It’s 2023 and I miss this man like he was family! Listened to him daily! Love these reruns!

Need him at SFO or OAK

+MegaMech I think they heard it. Probably they all burst out of laughter. The only reason we do not hear it is that they did not key their mic's.( The pilots)

Johan Jacobs haha, that is probably a good thing.

You can hear a smile in the voices of several pilots.

+James Griffiths Everybody loves Steve! :D

+H89SA 😂😂

Everybody besides the delta tugs ^^

When its crazy busy and they know thay have someone whos the best at their job...humor included...its very reassuring.

@@RioLanrue The Delta Tugs laugh with him on some of these. I'd say Turkish gets pretty irritated.

Keep them coming and we'll keep watching!!

+James Griffiths I will. :)

+H89SA BIG thank you for your work! I love your videos and Steve! He is so funny! Greetings from Latvia ;) P.S. we have only one airport (RIX) in Latvia with only one runway. LOL!

+owtena Hello to Latvia! Thank you for watching! :)

+owtena Just Riga? No regionals?

Hate to say this... but this Speedbird guy was a jerk... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tm2xf5bciv8.html

I've noticed that too. I'm not sure why to be honest, I can understand that a lot of non-native English speakers might have trouble keeping up with the wordplay so its unsurprising they tend to be the worst at joining the jokes, but I still can't think of a reason British pilots tend to beat out the Americans. It seems to have a lot more parity in non-ATC areas. Perhaps the British ATC use a less formal style, or the British pilots are less on edge being used to the small number of very major airports like Heathrow? I really couldn't say for sure. @@eustaceomalley6071 To be fair if he was almost hit earlier and then given no warning to stop a second time he has quite the right to be upset. He isn't putting it in a report and he isn't completely throwing down as a lot of pilots have done with far less reason, and the final "none of us are perfect" people are taking to be him salty but as a Brit its very clearly said as accepting her apology and moving on based from the tone. People seem to be assuming sarcasm as we tend to use sarcasm a lot, but that really isn't the case with that comment. Whilst on that point, calling her out on it actually was said as a semi-joke and people (the ATC included) took it as a serious attack on her. It was more meant to be "this isn't great, please focus, but its a joke so we can avoid anything a serious comment would bring" which ended up not being avoided anyway. "Not your usual standards" is a very common joke/phrase in Britain so I can appreciate the confusion. So joke/complaint (pilot), misunderstood/escalated/query (ATC), explanation (pilot), apology (ATC), apology accepted (pilot). Had she realised the first was part joking it would have gone on with his comment and no response, had he used a different way to point it out it wouldn't have happened like that either so hes to blame for the (lack of) clarity, shes to blame for the initial error, but either way from a British point of view it really wasn't meant to be remotely as serious as people are making it out to be and I don't consider that poor from the pilot. There are some examples I've not been happy with from BA of course, but that just isn't one of them.

Juggles airliners better than anyone I've heard!

+SomeBloke8895 Hahah. :D

Sounds like a Donald Trump-ism.

I just heard it as I read this comment... Heh.

I'm pretty sure it was at least 4

+Josh McCorquodale Thank you! :)

Is he still at Kennedy?

Josh McCorquodale it would be nice to have a meetup with him

No he is now retired.

@@gasaholic47 he retired from ground in '17. ATC's have a mandatory retirement age, which in Steve's case is bs afaic. I've heard rumours since then that he works ramp part time at Terminal One. If anybody could whip those ramp fools into shape it'd be Steve!

+Paul Hodge Thank you for watching!

+Richard Lamb Thank you! :)

I’m assuming the competition is British Airways?

@@JohnOConnell I reckon so yeah

He's now retired so he's enjoying himself.

+Geoffrey Field Thank you very much for watching! :)

+AD77 Thank you! :)

+Nighthawke70 Yeah the Heavy joke was missed by the pilot :)

Jolly well correct fine sir!

volante8657 bitter rivalry between them too

@@DirtIndustry a-firm on BA brickyard should be Indianapolis-based, tho I'm not familiar with US-based company

volante8657 Brickyard is the callsign for Republic Airways, who operates regional planes for AA, DL, and UA

+Aaron Oxford Thank you! :)

+Nathan Blease Thank you! :)

Aaron Hepps his name is steve abraham aka kennedy steve

+JuDav Thank you! :)

+SherlockT1985 Fuck it, I'm human too! Thank you!