[Live ATC] The Power of the Air Force ONE 

Legend has it that the Cessna finally ran out of fuel near the south pole.

"Vector south immediately or you may be fired upon" is even more terrifying to hear than "I have a number for you to call."

USAF : "Vector south immediately or you may be fire upon" Cessna pilot : *takes a 9g turn heading south*

"Cessna Pilot - if you do not vector south immediately then descend altitude to negative six feet and hold eternally"

Even the ATC left the tower and started walking south

Never really thought about it before, but piloting AF1 has to be the most chill job. ATC is always accommodating and you always fly in clear airspace or it gets cleared out by force. Repeat backs? Nah, I'll land where and when I want.

"USAF, that's gonna be a negative- my pizza rolls are done and the fastest route to my oven is a straight line, Cessna 69420."

Fighter Pilot: "Vector south immediately or you may be fired upon" Cessna Pilot: "Tower, I have a code brown emergency!"

Something like that happened in 2010 when President Obama was in Seattle. A small plane entered restricted airspace and didn't respond immediately to warnings. Two F-15's were scrambled out of Portland and practically the entire Pacific Northwest could hear (and yes, feel) the sonic booms they created as they screamed up the I-5 corridor. The lovely couple in the small plane realized their mistake when confronted by the two fighter jets, landed in a hurry and all was Golden Grahams.

Trust me being intercepted by a fighter IS the definition of intimidation. But on the plus side you get a pretty good free air show up close, real close, and personal.

They called this "The Great Southern Aircraft Migration". When all aircraft started heading south.

USAF: Lovely day for flying, sir. Sorry to have to ruin it, but if you don't go south, *everything* goes south, okay?

Well, we weren’t told we would be “fired upon”, but my dad and I were flying to Reno for an air show one year and we were contacted by tower and told to alter our course. Apparently there was a little demonstration we were about to fly over on our original route. Nothing major..... just high altitude rocket tests...... 😂

I imagine Air Force one is lien this to atc “requesting clearance to a lower altitude” ATC “sure what ever you want buddy u got it” 😂

"Say again?" (sound of shotgun being pumped) "OK, OK, vector south! Jeeeeee-zuh!"

"I'm sorry, could you repeat that for me ?" *sonic booms in the distance* "OKAY OKAY VECTOR SOUTH I'M ON IT"

Legend has it the Cessna is still vectoring south to this day.

I can just imagine all of the air traffic controllers turning to look at each other with the "Oh shit" look on their faces.

This happens more often than you may imagine. During the Bush years I was an army controller working out of Gray army airfield at Fort Hood (not the other one) which was within the crawford TFR. Every ATC facility whose airspace AF1 would traverse had to be on a conference call. So we heard everything and it was insane. There was constantly some aircraft that wasn't talking to ATC who was being closely watched.

The video was great until you decided to stop the recording after the USAF gave the warning. No conclusion of the story. Disappointing.

Unheard later: "Fox two."

To put in more perspective: It's using the callsign "Air Force One" meaning the President IS on board, so yah, they'll take that seriously.

Air Force one is so relaxed with all the calls. Doesn’t even repeat back the runway number, just says “cleared to land”

I was on a flight to Bali from Singapore. We were on final and almost on the ground when the engines roared and we were up in a steep climb. Captain stated VIP was on approach directly behind us and we had to go-around. We parked right beside AF1. Obama was attending the APEC meeting. We used ground stairs to a waiting bus. Nobody got on the bus. Everyone just walked around the bus and took pics. AF1 was beautiful. Elves must clean and polish it while it's inflight. LOL!

Fly high UnknownCessna

A few years ago a jetliner going from Atlanta to Reagan National in Washington was handed over from ATC Northern Virginia to ATC Reagan National. The ATCs did it right but the jetliner never contacted Reagan National. Almost 10 minutes later they radioed in and apologize for getting the frequency wrong. At that point ATC Reagan National informed them that at any second a pair of F-16s out of Andrews will be with them one to the port and one behind. They were advised to exactly mimic the motions of the one to the port or the one behind will shoot them down. Moral of the story: pay freaking attention!😂

Just when we thought "I have a number for you to copy" was the worst that could happen

Just once, I want to hear an ATC recording of a pilot responding after wandering into a TFR/Restricted Air Space say “ I’m trying to reach Lando Calrissian”

"Vector south or be fired upon." Cessna: "hows about you vector north i got a bb gun in here"

Hmmm... I don’t get treated like this every time I play as a generic 747 with call sign “AirForce1” in FSX

Cessna: Pfftt, those F-35 can't even lock me.

Hey, even Airforce One is required to read back assigned levels.

The detail that the aircraft is "squawking 1200 in mode 3" just means that the pilot is on visual flight rules (VFR) and has not been assigned a specific transponder code by air traffic control. The people suggesting that a number of planes might all start heading south reflects this, unless they realized the location is not referring to them.

"Yeah, well...go home and pick up an F-22 and come back...and then we'll talk about vectoring, Scooter."

"This is what you going to here" My brain had a stroke trying to read that

USAF _”vector south or you may be fired upon”_ Cessna _”negative ghost rider, pattern is full”_

I live near Site R and Camp David, north of D.C.. It is restricted airspace and every once in a while a small plane will fly over the mountain and it's like the military jets appear out of nowhere. I'm sure they're flying around every day just waiting for someone to mess up.

Flying with dad in 1970s Charter flight. We strayed into controlled airspace at Melbourne. The same style command voice from traffic control made it quite certain of the mistake. No fighter jets but DCA put Dad on full SAR for rest of flight! No more mistakes on navigation. Did not loose licence. Melbourne Airport Victoria.

When you to try land in your Cessna and see air force one with an escort of F-35's: Well guess I'll die?

Legend has it he still hasn’t vectored south.

A story goes, back in the day of the Hustler bomber,1950's, 60's, there was a training exercise on the west coast. Everybody and every plane our Air Force had in the area was in on it. This one, lone delta wing bomber was cruising along flying relaxed, no rush. As the other planes were closing in they were about to call it a win for them. The Hustler pilot asked if they all had him cold, they said yes they did. The Hustler said, "Good. Bye.". He dropped altitude down to the carpet, hit HIS engines afterburners and all. And disappeared! From sight and off radar! Seems it was built to pop up over one horizon, run in, drop a nuclear payload of bombs accurately and run away to dip below the other horizon. In nine seconds. Nine seconds! If it ain't true, it ought to be.

RIP - Fly high unknown cessna pilot

This and a story my dad told me from one of his buddies who flown for the Air Force (dad’s army), both show that military aircraft is terrifying, but the story my dad told me was this: A bunch of foreign pilots in fighter jets were flying where they weren’t suppose to, but my dad’s buddy was in a stealth aircraft flying above them, the foreign air crafts couldn’t detect them, but they continued flying into restricted territory until finally my dad’s buddy said over the radio: “Turn Around and go home, I can see you” very creepily as well, the foreign pilots kept looking around in their cockpits and straight up U-Turned and booked it out of the territory, then he came onto the radio with “don’t ever come back”.

So…. The real question. Who would win? Spicy Air Force bois, or even spicier Steven piloting the Cessna N731NR that wants to argue over Bravo airspace clearance with Las Vegas ATC? 🤔

I spent 20 years has a central Texas peace officer. One of my jobs was to guard the president's gate when he was in the Crawford White House during the President Bush administration. One of the local crop duster pilots had a beautiful stearman.on the 13th or 14th of September right after the terrorist attack he decided he wanted to go fly his stearman about. This was during the Nationwide ground stop. He had been flying about 5 or 10 minutes when to f-18s out of fort Worth come screaming by him.they're contacting him on the radio and all of that and he chops his AirSpeed down to about 80 miles an hour.they're ordering him to the ground and he's playing coy because he's got an open cockpit and he tells him he can't hear them because of the are noise.II pilot told him if you don't land that aircraft immediately I'm going to blow you out of the..... Landing immediately was his IMMEDIATE ANSWER! believe it or not he got out of trouble by plain stupid that he didn't know the entire airspace of the entire country was shut down.

Fighter Pilot: "Vector south immediately or you may be fired upon" Cessna: "I'd like to talk to your manager!"

There honestly comes a point where you say "fuck it, I'm landing at my alternate." AF1 entering the AO is most definitely past that point

"This is what YOU'RE going to HEAR...."

Well that escalated quickly, somebody didn’t check their NOTAM’s. Just stay out of the TFR, lol

When every aircraft within the airspace vector south. One guy in a wingsuit: **vectors north**

The 982 dislikes are the planes that where told to vector south 😂😂

Aww, I wanted to see a cessna dodging and weaving around will getting shot at!! 🤣 First Cessna/F35 dog fight!

SKY KING be like...." aww man , I'm not a pilot I dunno what that means!" ..." I wasn't actually planning on landing it"

Love listenening to Air Force One on freq and all of the juice that comes with it ! ✈🛩 ✌☮ 🇺🇸🌎

Fun fact: the United States Air Force has NEVER, and I mean: NEVER fired in aggression at another aircraft flying over US Airspace.

USAF - "vector south immediately" 1NR - "No, I've been talking to you this whole time!"

I don't think I'd be a cool enough ATC to respond to Air Force One without stuttering or tripping over my words.

I think the most interesting thing about this recording is that Air Force 1 doesn't give a fuck about giving any readbacks. And ATC doesn't chase those readbacks!!!

I watched one video like this one and my whole recommendation page is full of videos like this XD I'm not complaining..

My. That was chilling hearing it on the iPad in the living room.

Rumor has it the pilot was Doug Masters in his Cessna 172. No way was he gonna miss his opportunity to fly The Snake.

He is going to vector south either voluntarily or in flames....

RIP to that aircraft squawking 1200.

The only flight that doesn’t give way is an Angel Flight. That’s the flight bringing home the bodies of American heroes.

There were over 50 + intercepts when AF1 would come to PSP. It just amazes me how many pilots either ignore the TFRs or don't read them. Amazed, not surprised! lol.

One of my biggest fears as a student pilot is being somewhere i shouldnt by accident

“Vector south immediately or you may be fired upon” my response on the radio would have been: “meow”

When you have a question about the video, but you know once you ask it the comments will tear you to shreds

Legend has it the navigation system on the cessna is still going for the south pole

You get the same response flying over the Bush ranch in Texas just outside Crawford, Texas.

*"This is what you going to hear when you fly around by Air Force One"* Yeah, i was about to take my Honda Civic and fly around Air Force One this weekend, i hope it's a good weather

Imagine going for a little joy ride, it's a beautiful day for VFR. You got no idea ATC has been trying to contact you, you look to the side hoping to catch a glance of some nice scenery, and all you find is a flying god of destruction. Guy must've shit his pants lmao.

What is even MORE frightening is what we are about to "here". That's just sad..........

0:01 What I'm going to "here"? 🤦‍♂️

if I was listening to this in my improvised radio in my room I'd probably vctor south just in case

My boss broke down when this happened on the freeway near the airport. Cops showed up yelling at him HR had to move the president was landing! He said he did not give a duck who was landing his car was not moving! They called him a tow truck!

Imagine opening fire on a Cessna because they couldn’t hear you though.

The new AF-1 is rumored to have a snap-bay capable of launching the latest in defensive hardware.

I was waiting for AF1 to give Tower a number to call

Lincoln: come in buddy, head me in the shot if you like Modern president: sir there’s a Cessna 150 miles away, shall we fire the C-RAM?

Must of been Randy Quaid up there flying his crop duster drunk again!!!!!!😂🤣🤪

Air Force 1, descend and maintain 14000 AF1: Bring 14000 to me.

nice to know af1 is always accompanied by 2 fighters... makes planning a bit easier for those that wish it

Everybody gangsta till Cessna engages a dogfight against two F35

So......what happened? Did they shoot down the Cessna? Mediocre video, made a bit worse by the misspelled words.

"Thanks" is not a correct response to a descend and maintain instruction from atc.

Fighter Pilot: "Vector south immediately or you may be fired upon" Cessna Pilot: "May I see some identification, like a military id"

"I have the RIGHT TO TRAVEL" shouts the person on the radio.

......and then there was silence.

When air force one tells you to vector south, you vector south, even the ATC.

"Well I'd sure hate to be the guy squawking 1200 right now, hey what's my squawk code?"

"Seattle Approach, Air Force 1, 15 miles South at FL140, requesting Clearance...student pilot."

Harrison Ford finally responded saying,"But I'm flying Air Force One! Didn't you see my movie?"

You're not you and Hear not here

pretty much every airframe monitoring the frequency immediately dialed in 180 and may still be flying that heading until today

Refreshing to hear someone communicate so clearly.

In your opening graphic you spelled hear wrong.

Did that airforce one pilot feel to cool to properly respond to the ATC instructions?

“Vector south immediately or you may be fired upon”. Cessna: “trust me bro”

Put a TomTom in that Cessna - “At the next available intersection, make a legal u-turn.”