Pilots Won't Stop Wishing ATC "Happy Birthday" in Microsoft Flight Simulator (VATSIM) 

I’d honestly love to hear my actual pilot go “ok no start on engine #2. What the fuck is going on? I could’ve sworn I had the APU turned on. Ok here we go, now we have engine #2”

I used to work for a grocery store and had a manager who if you frustrated him or pissed him off, he would announce on the intercom it was your birthday and your current location in the store throughout your shift so all the customers would wish you happy birthday. It was hilarious.

One of the best parts of watching a variety of RU-vidrs is seeing the variety of sponsors they get. Like, Instead of “this video is sponsored by Hello Fresh” a million times I get “this video is sponsored by NaviGraph charts” like damn.

As a birthday gift, we'll release track-up moving maps so you'll never miss a taxiway again. 😉

Aye yoooo that JetBlue paint job looking respectfully weathered. Shout-out to that Detroit guy for having an awesome birthday 🎂🎉

Why the hell is it entertaining just watching you fly a normal plane in a rational way like a skilled human being. Without anybody getting blown up. NOT! EVEN! ONE! PERSON!

These videos are seriously one of the most relaxing. Even as silly things keep happening, the white noise of the engine and the plane speak is just... soothing.

Departure controller: it’s not my birthday AFP: yes it is 😉 Departure controller: *silence* *regrets life choices* I love these videos, keep up the fun content and happy birthday to the controller.

I would have never thought that wishing someone an off-season happy birthday could cause such mental discomfort.

Loved that "Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?" Reference! 😂 love your work man and as always to you and the rest of the commentors - Happy Birthday.

Only thing that would have made that landing any better is if he said "MMMMM BUTTER"

13:29 You flew with the Engine Mode Selector on "Ignition/Start" the whole time haha.

I was wondering why you kept switching between a yoke and a joystick before I realized you match it with the aircraft you're flying, pretty neat

When you hear the "5" you know the landing will be butter

The fact that there are people manning all the towers and what not is insane! What a game!

9:20 in fact, the whole FRDMM5 arrival actually spells out "honor, bravery, courage, pledge, we will never forget September 11, always freedom, stand together." The south branch of the arrival also spells out "let's roll victory hero."

The only thing guaranteed when AFP95 says ATC is fully staffed is that within 5 minutes his ATC will go offline

Good evening gorundpound69

Having flown in and out of Reagan numerous times and also spending many afternoons throughout my life at the aviation park this is the first time feel the accuracy of these flight simulations. It's truly amazing where they are on the technology of these flight simulations. Though what I will say is missing and pardon me I do not know what these things are called, are the light beacons from the ground that sort of signal you in I suppose. They are like little mini tower looking things, none the less, as I said, I'm truly impressed with the approach here.

AFP95: "If I remember correctly this thing climbs like the damn space shuttle.." Me: "He's exaggerating again, I know it." [The plane attacks the angle like a wild boar] AYO, WHAT THE F... Edit: 3:55

That guy who yelled "Smoke!" On the PA gave everyone a heads-up of the fog covering the land

Never in my life have I ever seen something as complex as the cockpit of an air vehicle, and then I always get to thinking like, Holy shit man, humans builtthat, designed, that, created that, innovated that, and then all the protocols and procedures to make it all work out, from ATC to the verbal transfer of information, it is so fuckin' wild and impressive man.

i know absolutely nothing about planes or anything of the sort but these videos have me absolutely fascinated. In fact, I even bought Flight Sim. It was a lot harder than i expected.

3:18 not only does that thing look like it hasnt seen a shower in 6 years, but also landed in dirt, sand and water before it got to that airport

It's very cool to see this change of pace with the professional ATC type videos in contrast to the earlier crazy ones. I love them both.

Welcome to the FBW A20N ! just wanted to mention that you have the fly pad to your left as a tablet with direct navigraph integration, a vatsim radio section, a lot of ground control features (pushback, payload, etc), and a lot of options on the aircraft itself to put it in a nutshell, it is very useful Btw : you have max flaps speeds written to the right of your nav display and several minor things that I noticed : 1. you left your engines in ingnition the entire flight 2. you did not arm the emergency exit 3. the luminosity knobs for the overhead is right next to the Apu master and you seem to have figured it out but yeah you need Apu air for the engine startup

I love Navigraph. it was the first subscribtion I have ever not regretted over a long period of time and made flight sim easier to catch up with real pilots flying in there as well

Wait, I call shenanigans. I would have thought JetBlue would charge you extra for flight attendant briefings.

Happy Birthday AirForceProud95!

I'm not going to wade through 770 comments but in case no one else has said it... yeah, you're just as good as any other JetBlue pilot. And that's a compliment to all.

Thank you for the birthday well wishes. I was pumped to see an airpotato76 upload on my birthday. Made my day. Also didn’t realize we shared a birthday. Happy birthday to you as well.

8:35 Gotta love that descent briefing. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. 😉

There was this guy in my wifes high school who everyone said happy birthday to every day. He would get super angry and be like "its not my BIRTHDAY" and so like it became a thing everyone said to him. morning announcements listed him on birthdays whenever the kid doing that could get away with it, chanted it at assemblies, got all the new kids to go up to him and wish him happy birthday. He hated it. It got out to the other schools in the area. I dont know what happened to him but if you bring up the happy birthday kid in this town even fifteen years later everyone knows what you are talking about.

Omg, I’ve flown this route several times and it’s always one of my most challenging landings every single time but happy birthday Atc✨✨✨🎉🎊🎊

"Violent turbulence, Jesus Christ! What is happening?" Your flying into Washington DC. Ive done that once. From now on if I go to the mainland I'll drive to DC.

Nice landing! Last year I was on an IRL flight into Reagan. Most brutal landing I've ever been on. We had 3 called-off approaches at the very last second. Major turbulence the whole time. When we finally landed, someone scrammed to the bathroom, while the plane was still moving. Then a fire alarm went off. The dude had lit up a cigarette. 😆 The pilot and flight crew were very chill about it, figured it was a stressful landing and didn't have the guy punished for it. Heck I don't even smoke and I wanted a cigarette.

He noticed the ‘NEVRR FORGT’, but it actually is a lot bigger. The arrivals waypoints are: ‘HONNR BRVRY COURG MORLL PLDGE’ then ‘WEEEE WILLL NEVVR FORGT SEPII’ and ‘ALWAYZ FRDMM’

Loving that JetBlue livery! I always fly Jetblue on MSFS2020 while playing "Im Blue" when taxiing

Great video, but the way you handled my favourite aircraft stressed the fk out of me xD A32NX has a custom autopilot with fully functional LNAV and VNAV as well as FMS. Also plz activate the Approach Phase when on approach, helps with the correct speeds etc

I just flew into Reagan and this is extremely realistic. Very nice!

"This is your captain speaking. We're about to begin decent into Washington D.C. Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? I thought not." If my captain said this, I'd die from laughter.

The flight attendant's cabin briefing had me rolling 🤣

"Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your Captain speaking. We will shortly be taxiing towards the runway for take-off, just as soon as I figure out how to start the engines."

You must say happy birthday to every atc you contact from now on.

So happy to see Detroit Metro represented in MS Flight Sim 2020 (my hometown airport!) Also happy to see that the bugginess hasn't completely gone away either.

not enough troll gameplay; we need supersonic hot air balloons, 747 dogfights, and space shuttle status

That luscious pilot voice was the famous V1 Simulations

Happy Birthday.

Thank you for sponsoring Navigraph and Happy Birthday.

This is still comedy gold! Also love your content as always.

One time I had someone ask me to wish company traffic a happy birthday and you better believe I hit them with a big "from all of us here in the tower cab, happy birthday"

just found this video today, on my birthday. cheers!

Always relaxing when the pilot says "What the fuck is going on?!?" and strikes a ground vehicle off the bat. Enjoy the rest of your flight...

Reach for my soul? TAKE IT! And.... Happy Birthday. ETA: Are you flying in the copilot configuration or is your talking head reversed?

I like just slamming the throttle to max while holding down the brakes and then releasing for that Battlestar Galactica feel

I remember me and a bunch of other pilots wishing Boston Center a happy birthday on VATSIM a few years ago lol

I hope he had a good birthday!

I love when groundpound69 uploads, it usually hints that’s it’s gonna be a good day/night.

I love the wingtip and tail camera views! Happy birthday

Another great upload from SoundCloud22

Forget going out you can just stay with VATSIM and you get quality entertainment. Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!

just fyi, the lnav on the latest fbw stable release is fully custom and does a very good job, arguably on the level of fenix

Funny enough today is actually my birthday, I always really enjoy your videos Airforceproud95, and can never contain my laughter watching you. Have a wonderful rest of the evening and thanks for putting so many smiles on people’s faces. :D

Wait, Jeppesen is owned by Boeing? And you're telling me I STILL have to pay to get their charts in Foreflight, WHICH THEY ALSO OWN?

The tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise. That’s a throw back!

You never closed the flight deck door, you have to flip the lock switch on the lower pedestal

When my friends find out I'm into sims, and they see my full setup and think its boring and harcore... But they don't realize there are people that are happy to be sim air traffic controllers... That's hardcore.... Respect..

8:40 Did this guy just go full audio book on us?

Your videos are strangely as relaxing as they are chaotic....not sure how that works...but...you've perfected it...

I love how the horizon always rises to the level of the eyes....without a curve

Gotta make sure to close the cockpit door to make the cabin announcement quieter :)

I just want to say thank you for posting these videos. It's people like me who envy people like you about the dreams of flying. Also, APU was on but it was dumped. So now you gotta get out and hand start it with a crank.

you actually make this game sound fun.

Just wanna say the landing was Supreme. The babies in the back didn't wake up more did you ash the joint id been smoking the entire flight. When we hit the terminal my man Bobby was still confused and thought we were still at departure with our buttplugs still in! He took too many shoots. Nice flight thanks for the ride!

An new video from GroundPound69, what more to make one happy?

11:20 - Almost the same right bank as an old Kai Tak approach! Washington Monument standing in for the 'checker board' 😃

Nice landing dude. I mean I have no idea if it was or not, it did look nice though. Nice.

I miss the chaos of the old videos but these new videos are really good too. All good content.

I listen to youtube a lot at work but now that I'm off and I am actually watching the video your captions make it 1000% funnier

Interesting! I've been on a plane that landed on this same runway. A regular was telling me that usually you could see the Washington Monument but because it was dark and cloudy we weren't able to see it.

Happy birthday! Glad you enjoyed a relaxing flight on my birthday.

I am now concerned that on my next flight, I'm going to hear the cabin announcement, followed by "Have you heard of the tragedy of Darth Plageous the Wise? It's not a story the Jedi will tell you..."

reagan was my home airport growing up and it's nice to see it again

Imagine a Hot air balloon traveling at 250 nots, with Happy Birthday written on it XD

Instinctively, my first reaction to this is 'fucking nerds' but actually I'm really impressed by the dedication of people involved to proper RP

It's actually my frickin' birthday today lol. Thanks for the video!

Butter on that landing!

Good to see a new video up. They have been far and few in between lately.

About damn time you did a video of the River Visual into DCA, coward. 😉 But, yes, quite high on the approach at the Key Bridge/Arlington. Happy birthday!

Just landed Reagan this past Sunday, was a nice flight on American Airlines. Had my honeymoon in Grenada.

I'm setting a reminder to myself to watch this on my birthday so I get a happy birthday from you

I think this is the first time I’ve ever had the ad for the sponsor pop up while watching the video and color me impressed I thought it was kinda well done

"This might be a news article in about 20 feet or so..." That's a good one LOL.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, I'll keep them in mind until May.

I really like that you are doing more serious flying content

OH MY GOD THAT WAS YOU! I WAS ON FREQUENCY WHEN YOU WERE GASLIGHTING THE CONTROLLER ABOUT THEIR BIRTHDAY!!!

Love these videos. Always wanted to learn how to be the ATC on flight sim. Have you done a video on what it takes to learn and do ATC on flight sim?

I love flight sims. I can take off, put my plane into AP mode to follow the flight plan, and then I can look at memes on my phone, and I feel productive, because TECHNICALLY I'm doing two things at once.

That was some slick flying Andddd happy birthday

Thanks, happy birthday to you air force proud 69