Best and Funniest Air Traffic Control Conversations 

Working on my next ATC video to be published soon

Imagine going through years of rigorous training only to be called a banana.

“If you can get under, over, or around the A340 between you and gate 4, you tell me about it.”

lmao *Pilot forgets his wallet* Tower: "Ehm, can you just drop it out of the window or something?.." ... "Yeah, we can do that"

"You guys obviously never think about safety do you?" 😂The sheer snark. Imagine what driving would be like if every car on the highway had a radio to talk to each other.

It’s so funny how they gotta insult each other formally 😂😂😂

As an Aussie, seeing "Inaudible" and being able to perfectly understand what's being said makes me proud.

ATC: "Please use complete your callsign American 2601" American 2601: *"A M E R I C A N A I R L I N E S 2 6 0 1"*

"AIr France 6 Gate 8 is available for us" --- "No it's not, they lied to you" LOL

Pilot: Did you just called me a Banana- Cutest conversation

As an airline employee, I can confirm none of us are as professional as we try to make you think.

A passenger: Everything's fine. I'm glad the professionals take care of us. An airport: *is a hilarious mess*

I love how that one ATC denies calling the one plane a banana and then the Pilot just goes "I heard it." xD

And passengers wonder why it takes so long to get on and off the runway lmao. A bunch of old guys passive aggressively bickering at each other.

*"Remove everybody in our way, we have declared an emergency"* mood

As an airline pilot I’ve flown to jfk multiple times and I can tell you that jfk tower are certified a holes

"Remove everybody from our way. We're declaring an emergency" that pilot was NOT in the mood 😂

“I’m just afraid we’re a little committed to 4R” “Are you saying you have commitment issues sir?”

The french guy with the thin moustache.. “ah ookay”

ATC: "KEEP...THAT...BIG...BODY...MOVIN" SFO: "copy that"

I love this air traffic controller, " if you can get over it, under it, or around it, you let me know. I don't need you to tell what I can see & you can't." Lol.

"I'm going to declare emergency". That's the new slogan I will be using from now on whenever I can't have it my way right away.

"If you can get around, over or under Airbus a340 between you and gate 4 tell me about it" 😂😂😂

The AirFrance pilot seems so tired of everybody’s shit 😭😂😂

Australian and UK pilots conversing normally: American subtitle writers: "inaudible"

"I need ya to use the full callsign" " *A M E R I C A N A I R L I N E S* "

After seeing the amount of salt in this video, I remember when we about to land our flight from Mexico City to Chicago our pilot said "we're gonna be up here for an extra moment now since tower control is being american as always" now makes sense

I just watched 11 minutes of something I know nothing about

Bonanza Pilot: "Hold short of 17, did you just call me a banana?" Tower: "No sir, no sir you did not hear that correctly. [laughter]" Other Pilot: "I heard it." SNITCH!!

"Do you have commitment issues?" LOL

Passengers: are pilot must be so serious Pilot: can I just go fly over my house

. . . This sounds like a bunch of guys playing flight simulators. [EDIT] HOLY COW! I never had a comment reach anything close to a hundred and here this one after a year is at 10K! I'm glad you all liked it.

My god...being an ATC is like herding children. Much respect to the people that have the patience for a job like that.

Lmao “If you don’t give me that runway I’m gonna declare an emergency”

2:27 Bananza Pilot: did you just call me banana!? Tower Girl: No sir No sir. Pilot: *I heard it!* 🤣

“Hey I forgot my wallet, can you just drop it out the window?.” “Yeah we can do that!.” 😂😂😂😂

I feel like that controller who was asking if he had a ‘visitor’ was just checking they aren’t under distress, but in a calm manner

"please try to understand the safety." New phrase I'm gonna use

"Just shut up" "Ill see you in the terminal buddy and you can tell me to my face" LOL!!

When he accidentally tells the tower to have a nice xmas instead of the passengers XD That's like when you hit reply all accidentally.

When a perfectly clear Australian accent is labelled as 'inaudible'.....

I'm waiting for the hot air balloon to buzz the tower at 400 knots...

JFK - the whole airport experience is aggressive.

"Are you saying you have commitment issues sir?" Best line lmao

"What did you say the captain's name was?" *"...oooh noooo..."* My uncle is a pilot and unless there's a serious situation going on, it's tradition to not interrupt another pilot when he mistakenly broadcasts something meant for the PA system, and then have a good natured poke about it,.

“no it’s not they lied to ya....... i don’t need you to tell me what i can see and you can’t” that guy woke up on the wrong side of the bed lmao

I can imagine Pilots hate flying into JFK

What I gleaned from that is that I never want to be an air flight controller or hear what's going on in the cockpit. Just close my eyes and pray I get there in one piece...

Oh my God, it's like watching an Air Force proud 95 video only with actual adults and pilots being like the kids in said videos.

"Short left 2601" Atc: need ya to use the full callsign sir. *breathes in* "AmErIcAn AiRLiNeS tOo SiX zEeRo WuN"

The realisation in the pilots voice when he realises the PA announcement went out on the radio.

" keep that big body moving" omg

“ can i fly over my house? its my last flight “

"What's the word on your gate?" "Trying to figure it out." LMAO I'M DEAD

“Are you saying you have commitment issues sir?” I DIED-

There goes my image of a professional conversation between ATC and the pilot everytime 😂

"No it's not, they lied to ya" hahaha

2:20 "did you just call me a banana?" This really does sound like flight simulator.

Bananza Pilot: “Hold short of 17, did you just call me a Banana?” Tower: “er...no sir, no sir, you did not hear that correctly” Pilot: “I heard it.”

I know this to be true: passengers love nothing more than sitting in a sealed plane with no air conditioning for several hours just a few feet from their gate. Some of my best memories of air travel involve these moments of living death.

I feel like this entire video was passive-aggressiveness incarnate.

6:28 Pilot: “We are a little committed to RWY 4R” Ground control: “Are you saying you have commitment issues?” *L. E. G. E. N. D. A. R. Y.*

"No they lied to ya"

For those interested, in the case of the 2010 emergency on American Airlines Flight 2, they were already at emergency fuel, and company policy forbade them from landing on runway 22R with the wind gusting as it was, even though the airplane was still within its limits. (For those who don't understand why the pilots wouldn't push the company's limits in favor of the airplane's higher limits, in aviation, and especially with older companies, such as American Airlines, safety culture is pretty important. Planes have been lost because pilots overestimated the plane or underestimated the forces exerted on the plane.) I imagine they were already a priority aircraft and believed that they had communicated their situation with ATC adequately. Thus, even though it probably could have been worded better, they requested runway 31R, and then declared an emergency. Once an airplane declares an emergency, they are the number one traffic and basically get to request that others move out of their way- crying wolf will get you in trouble, but low fuel and bad weather are generally good reasons to declare an emergency. I found a longer clip of this incident and there's a big change in the pilot's voice once they're on the ground. In the air, the pilot's voice is the voice of a terrified man who has steeled himself in the face of a stressful situation- I have spent my entire life learning to pick up on social cues manually, because my brain is not wired to do it automatically. This has actually made me better at reading people than most, and I am now capable of picking up on things that others don't because they don't have to focus on trying to receive these signals. Once the plane is on the ground, it's almost like they weren't even in an emergency situation- there's metric tons of tension that is noticeably absent once they're requesting taxi instructions. Mostly, it sounds like a failure to communicate clearly. The pilot on the radio should have *clearly* declared an emergency the moment they realized they couldn't land 22R instead of saying they would declare if they couldn't get 31R- the pilot obviously believed he had declared an emergency, but due to the poor wording, he actually hadn't. The ATC should have snapped into emergency mode after the second declaration, but that's the downside to "declaring an emergency" as opposed to the unambiguous nature of the "Pan-Pan" and "Mayday" calls- in this case, a Mayday call should have been used by the pilots. Everything ended well, and I believe that this incident contributed to America phasing out the ambiguous emergency declaration. Now, even though this was a minor incident, the NTSB still has to get involved. When the news heard about all this, they actually contacted the ATC union spokesman at Kennedy- one Steve Abraham. Many of us know him better as Kennedy Steve. He actually spoke in defense of the pilots, and if Kennedy Steve thinks you made the right call, you probably did. In the end, no one on the ground or in the plane got in trouble.

5:36 “keep that big body movin”😂😂

I could never be a pilot. I can’t understand a damn word anyone is saying without the captioning.

‘Did you just call me a banana?’ ‘I heard it’ Lmao

This makes me develop an appreciation for 20-30 min delays landing and taking off

''Are you having commitment issues sir?'' I'm dead.

"I don't need you to tell me what I can see and you can't." I love that line.

I like hearing the insults from the people flying giant metal beasts in the sky

"we are stuck behind this cactus" -Unknown Pilot

Man, some of this radio traffic sounds like teenagers playing an online video game and yelling at each other that the other guy is doing it wrong.

Can't read a doctor's handwriting, can't understand a damn word the pilot's saying.

- Are you declaring an emergency? - Yes, I’m declaring an emergency! I’ve declared it THREE TIMES ALREADY! CLEAR EVERYONE OUT OF THE WAY! - Okay, I just wanted to check, because you said you ‘would’ declare em- - CLEAR EVERYONE OUT OF THE WAY!!!

The funniest thing I ever heard on the radio was at Fulton County Airport (FTY) many years ago. A student pilot was given taxi instructions and he responded, "10-4". The controllers came back on to correct him and you could hear the others laughing in the background. Some other pilots had to rib him too. Poor guy.

“I assume you mean American Airlines 2601” “Nope I mean American 2601 like we’ve been saying 😂” The pettiness of the pilot has me dead

I remember flying into Las Vegas one time and they had the COM on one of the channels at our seats. ATC said can you slow up a little, the plane in front is still on the runway. The pilot said, " We have everything hanging out except the laundry."

Passengers: I trust the pilot and air traffic control to keep me safe Pilot: "Yee fUckINg wANkeR GIMme tHaT RUnwaY two seven niner ARRGh" ATC: "What, you egg?"

Doing this job, I'd go mad within 5 minutes.

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Tower: “American 2601 Pilot: “No sir, it’s American Airlines 2601” 😂

"You were lovely" = Inaudible.

"if you can get *under, over or* around the Lifthansa A340 between you and gate 4 you tell me about it" Love the patter from JFK's ATC.

American ATC trying to be as cool and badass as humanly possible. French pilots with French accents: uhh ok

No wonder ATC make great bank. That's stressful AF

“If you can get over or under the aircraft in front of you...” “Roger, cleared to takeoff taxiway Charlie”

Every single time I hear the "Thank you, if you can get under, over or around the Lufthansa a340 between you and the gate, tell me" I start laughing hard. What a jewel of quick sarcasm 😂 I'd have applauded even if I was the unfortunate pilot it was directed at. 😁

Forget learning how to fly a plane, this jargon is what takes years of training for pilots

"Remove everybody from our way, we have declared an emergency" 5:02 dude the way he says it I'm laughing so much

Wow, so much passive Aggressiveness - and I thought my Desk Job was bad...

"Need you to use the full call sign, Sir" "Ameeeerican aaaiiirrliiiines 2601" He was so done 😆

4:18 that whole conversation sounds just like something Airforceproud95 would say during an FSX multiplayer session

"Thank you very good if you can get under, over or around the Lufthansa A340 between you and gate 4 you tell me about it. " Why is no one talking about this? 😂

Trust the British "I wish you'd understand the SAFETY"

it's almost amazing how they sound so professional and not at the same time

I work as an air traffic controller, lol. Of course, sometimes we have fun in friendly manner, but nothing personal with Captains - they too. How ever, we always keep the safety in our mind - Zero error/mistake/carelessness is our guideline.

“Yeah one of the previous pilots left their wallet in there, could ya drop it out the window or something?” “Sure!”

That Qantas captain had the best reaction ever haha “Ooooyyyyy noooooy : (“

"Did you just call me a BANANA??" That took me completely off guard! I literally cried of laughing!