Air Traffic Control Conversations: PAVEMENT FAILURE at JFK

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[@Cobinja]

Legend says there's still a traffic jam short of whiskey

[@samuelbhend2521]

re-name it to "water" and the problem is no more....

[@tonkatrucker]

Fun stuff.. Steve's now retired. Can you only imagine having to drive him somewhere. " Okay, go left on Main, hold on Whiskey, wait for the green, right on Broadway, then proceed to the ramp, hold for the UPS driver then...." "uh..Steve, I ain't outta my driveway yet..."

[@Bea-Nuh-Luh]

HAHA!!!! Omg yes! I'd love to just hang out with him and have a beer!

[@donna30044]

@@Bea-Nuh-Luh I'd rather have whiskey. 😁

[@richardarmstrong5548]

Steve’s now working at JFK running the ramp at terminal 1 🤣 9 months after his retirement they contacted him and offered him the job. Bet it’s the smoothest running ramp in the US now!

[@lis9691]

@@richardarmstrong5548 really?? That’s hilarious

[@SookiesCharlie_aunt]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@IgorDellaPietra]

pilot: how long is the delay? steve: I don't know.. it's more than 10 so i got to borrow somebody elses fingers

[@myFailedProductions]

"My mistake I was trying to contact ground." "I AM GROUND" lol

[@vakama9053]

Oh god, we're so sorry

[@rogervoss4877]

That works.

[@honestdon123456]

"You'll just hear her clearing guys to land but eventually she'll clear one for t/o" haha love this guy

[@Nighthawke70]

That concrete pavement failure set off a chain of events that snarled things up nicely.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

The useful lifespan of a runway typically is 15 to 20 years. Using that standard, many runways around the country are on their last legs. He handled it well but if they use a NYC pothole repair crew, it's doomed.

[@Nighthawke70]

@@haroldwilkes6608 The taxiway repair doomed all schedules for at least a month. Two full weeks to fill out the proper gov't paperwork, then a week waiting for approval, then a week for the crew to fix it, then a week to get it tested and certified. Yeesh.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@Nighthawke70 I can believe that. Still faster than pothole repair though.

[@graham2631]

I love his redirections when something fouls up his plans.

[@xXBl4ckB3ltXx]

"Oh sorry we were trying to contact ground" "I am ground" "Oh god sorry!" XD

[@Nighthawke70]

xXBl4ckB3ltXx No you got ground. God's on the approach frequency.

[@jfan4reva]

After "Oh god, sorry" I was halfway expecting KS something like "Somedays I'm sorry too!" Especially on a day when he suddenly has to reroute so many planes.

[@FoxtrotGolfLima]

Steve sounded so offended about not being recognized as ground. he said it with a >:( face

[@rcslyman8929]

Well... at least he didn't call him "Ramp".

[@paveladamek3502]

I think the word whiskey was said at JFK more times than in the whole of Ireland and Scotland on this day.

[@dashendy2887]

😂

[@B2BWide]

I actually got quite thirsty by listening to it and I hold short of WHISKEY even when sitting home...

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

Pavel Adamek ... I'm Irish & endorse this comment !!😅😅

[@Bobrogers99]

When I heard that I thought, "Nobody wants to be short of whiskey!"

[@decline2state]

How was it that "whiskey" became the radio comm word for *W*?

[@snras4927]

that guy really knows how to deal with traffic, impressive

[@H89SA]

It's a pleasure listening to him. Amazing controller :)

[@Bobrogers99]

He knows exactly what to do, and he gives his instructions in a good-natured way. He's never rude, and he rarely sounds like he's under pressure.

[@reynirheidbergstefansson2343]

Some say he was literally born with a microphone in his hands. Some others say he can carry a Mad Dog under one arm and an Angry Puppy under the other while balancing the Top 1% on his head and hauling three not-so-super tugs behind him. But... all I really know is that he is called... The Steve. Oh, and he has hung up the headset due to mandatory retirement age, and is now supposedly trolling the tugs from the ramp/apron side.

[@chillylizerd]

@@reynirheidbergstefansson2343 probably trying to hitch a ride to whisky...

[@TheUnforgiven69]

I know to most people this must seem like organized chaos, but as a retired Hornet fighter pilot of 20 years service in the CAF I can tell you with certainty that's exactly what it is lol Steve is an incredible controller who makes clarity from confsuion like magic lol...

[@Monicaerikarita]

As a teacher I’d like to say that organized chaos is my entire personality now. I feel like Kennedy Steve could ATC my high schoolers into the organized part in 15 seconds. I aspire to that level of organizing my chaos.

[@pamspurgers3578]

@@Monicaerikarita KS has had more practice organizing chaos. He's a great role model. Good luck to you.

[@mossquadmodsyfs2004]

This guys job is so stressful. Love the way he handles it. Keep posting I'll keep watching.

[@r123154]

I do believe Steve is a nut .I never heard of him until earlier today and i have to say without a doubt he us funny as heck. I have laughed my self sick and to the point that my stomach hurts like hell. I sincerely want to say Thank You Steve .Believe me when i say that i have flown into Philly , CLT and ATL many times over 20+ years and i 've never had one controller even 10% of what you are . But being Funny don't get it safely done in those environments . I listen to you and not only are you funny a lot but you never lose site at any time of your responsibility's as a controller . For that fact alone i say thank you . I still would have felt safe had i ever flew in there with that 1 % . lol

[@AD-yi3qz]

I love this guy. I always start the day with Kennedy Steve. Keep 'em coming please.

[@H89SA]

+AD77 Thank you for watching!

[@Zulnex]

Splendid video as always. What a very stressful job and yet he performs it so professionally.

[@H89SA]

+Neven Thank you! :)

[@bridgefin]

Any job you love as much as Steve does is not stressful.

[@combatwings]

It's more than 10 so I'm gonna have to borrow someone else's fingers. LMAO 🤣

[@MegaMech]

I watch these and am like: "Man, this guy is having so much fun! I want some of that fun too!"

[@H89SA]

+MegaMech Study hard and find your dream job and you'll have fun all the time! :)

[@MegaMech]

H89SA haha yea, I think I'll stick with music. The rule book can fit on a few pages. While ATC is a series of novels. More accurately an entire encyclopedia.

[@H89SA]

+MegaMech I agree. I used to play some instruments too. :)

[@MichaelCaliri]

Now there is a guy that love's his job

[@PhilippKirchner]

"Sorry, I was trying to contact GND" "I am GND" "oh, we're so sorry" :'D

[@juliagregory922]

Mad respect to all ATCs!!!

[@LSDelta92]

right at 1:26 You know the ATC is thinking "Well fuck me sideways"

[@chillylizerd]

It's great that I can read what he's saying but his voice and intonations are everything.

[@buckmetta]

great job - that's exactly what I wanted...with text to practise understanding - thanks a lot from Brazil

[@H89SA]

No worries, thank you for watching. :)

[@Tibbyrevolution]

How's the lessons go in the end?

[@owtena]

I think Steve was a little upset that it was TUG 1 and not TUG 2 :)) I really need to know why he always trolling TUG 2 :DDDDDD

[@shadowguidr7042]

owtena Good old Stephen.

[@rogervoss4877]

Tug Too has more built in opportunities for humor.

[@B2BWide]

Roger Voss you wanna tug it, too?

[@sharpfang]

IIRC the driver is his good friend.

[@jenjay71]

This guy definitely a total pro. By the way he is ground lol 😂

[@fhuber7507]

Kennedy Steve is a walking traffic control computer.

[@anotheruserism]

no mater how many times I listen to this I still laugh. Especially at the Where would you like us? Philadelphia comment

[@suzannesmith4191]

Kennedy Steve, he's the man!

[@Athaeus]

Hahah, seems like Steve's not the only hilarious controller when listening to 3:35!

[@ambercarter8267]

“and…. Stop!” 😆

[@Digmeup1]

With all those whiskey calls, sounds like someone's going to end up with a drinking problem.

[@MrNiki14]

This guy was a investor at Manhattan and now he's working at JKF. I've seen a lots of articles about him.

[@B2BWide]

NikeR can you link some? I saw the NYT article only from (March???) 2010. I really wish I could read more on him. Meanwhile I wondered what if he had been an auctioned before... :D

[@whitneycouch7329]

Love how he is able to redirect the flow of traffic so fast.

[@jimolygriff]

Thanks for posting these. informative and funny.

[@H89SA]

+James Griffiths Thank you for watching! :)

[@dedissimo]

00:20 when he talks like that to the tug... It's h i l a r I o u s

[@MyNamesHerb]

This is hilarious... good video.

[@DarkAlice]

6:02 Best conversation XD

[@scottpayne9573]

Damn he's good..... unreal

[@frankgrimesification]

Sounds like Kennedy Steve picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

[@nithindevoor9809]

Nice work, Tower guy.. Im pretty sure you are a trained professional, no one could make out those inaudible conversations.. Keep up the good work...

[@drmayeda1930]

This is the ground controller not tower. They have different areas to control.

[@nithindevoor9809]

And there is operation command, which is responsible in total, including the airspace Along with your condescending and vacuous words.

[@thecheeta]

Nithin Devoor Operation command? Um...no. More specifically, there is no such thing as "operation command" in the United States airspace system. ***** is correct. This particular controller, though he is stationed in an air traffic control tower, is the ground controller. There are other controllers, referred to as "tower" (as opposed to "ground") that control the immediate airspace around the airport, and more specifically control the aircraft arriving on and departing from the runways. Ground and Tower collaborate with each other to have some semblance of efficiency, although at places like JFK, there's just so much traffic that "efficient" is a pretty relative term. drmayeda1's comment was not remotely condescending or vacuous. They were merely an attempt to educate you as to the difference between "tower" and "ground." Nothing to get butthurt over.

[@edwin4362]

They are audible from his location. These aren't recorded from the airport or anything, more like residential that's next to the airport. So the audio here is much less clear than what he is hearing.

[@caninedrill_instructor5861]

Actually, Ham radio operators that operate on HF could probably decipher the radio chatter.

[@abouabed7203]

it is a great responsibility to direct nd control the movements of the airplanes on the ground.the controler must always remain awake to make sure planes are moving safely.experience is acquired with long time practice...

[@chillylizerd]

Man... All these planes going to whisky... I want to go to whisky as well... Mmmm whiskey....

[@MicrowavedAlastair5390]

Professional Cat Herder Upset By Pavement

[@mowburnt]

What a pro!

[@98gsoup]

Damn, keeping up with that stuff.

[@michellejohnson3867]

Hahaha love it, Pilot: 'okay where do you want me to go?' ATC: ''Id like you to go to Philidelphia, but you can wait right there!' LMAO 😁🤣🤣🤣 xx

[@HM2SGT]

I’m not sure what some more amazing; that he can keep track of it all and manage that chaos or they kept coming back to do it day after day?!

[@D3cyTH3r]

I had no idea modern airports were so congested?! -surely it would only take one person to make a mistake here and it could have catastrophic consequences?

[@nickc.8814]

D3cyTH3r not catastrophic unless it's on a runway at high speed. Yes, there can be screw-ups which result in planes swapping paint, but it won't usually result in injury unless there's been a major mistake. Keep in mind all of these airplanes are on the ground, spread over a large area of airport: look at a map of JFK and you'll see what I mean.

[@drmayeda1930]

as long as they don't touch wings. That could be a bigger problem than scrapped paint. I'm looking for the intruder that hopped the fence and drove a trunk into the nosegear of an occupied jet.

[@vbscript2]

Touching wings happens more than you might think. It's a bad day for the airplanes (and for whoever was at fault,) but it doesn't harm the passengers, aside from causing them some serious delays due to needing a new airplane. And ramming a truck into the nose gear of a passenger jet isn't going to harm anyone except for the poor guy in the truck. He will have a bad day. The airplane will need to go to maintenance, but it's not going to harm the people on board. The nose gear is literally designed to be pushed with a truck. That's how the airplanes are positioned on the ground before they start the engines. The landing gear on an airliner is very strong.

[@pourquoiunidentifiant]

i miss so much Kennedy steve

[@MaraBu97]

6:11 I AM ground!! :D

[@thisismetoday]

“That’s such an uninteresting thing to say” that’s so mean! 😬

[@jamie-hb8gy]

I'd love Steve as a sat nav voice

[@mattnewhouse7342]

1:34 - pour me a shot of whiskey!!!! i know but damn...all that work going into maintaining flow and boom...the pavement screws you...

[@boahneelassmal]

Are you sure it's DAL45? Sounds like DAL485 (4-85) to me, could be terribly wrong though

[@User0000000000000004]

No, you're correct. Lots of these transcriptions are incorrect.

[@mikegallegos7]

This ATCr is my Hero !! lol lol He's the best!

[@MrShadow1617]

Austrians always takin their time in rush hour xD

[@RangieNZ]

Whilst a lot of this may sound like rubbish, if you look at a map of the taxiways, it's pretty easy to understand. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/JFK_airport_map.gif

[@uditabhattacharya2824]

It still makes no sense

[@RangieNZ]

@@uditabhattacharya2824 do you understand the 'phonetic alphabet' (google it). So something like "left alpha, right tango" means "turn left onto taxiway A, follow A until turn right taxiway T" etc.

[@Coldstreamer17]

HE'S OVER THERE!!

[@gorklud]

Would it be possible to up load a map of the airport and also a section with the jargon defined.....for we non pilots

[@VideoNOLA]

www.lmgtfy.com/?q=runway+layout+jfk+airport

[@queeny5613]

About 3 years late but All the whiskey Charlie etc are just names for taxiways and points Heavy and super are weight classes to do with how much jet wash each produce Hold short- stop when you get there Tug- thing that moves planes about, planes can’t reverse out by themselves Tower- that’s the atc that control from the runway up to the surrounding air of the airport Ground- controls the planes on the ground Hope that helps

[@mrserious55]

it would be awesome if he was on MS flight sim

[@mikegallegos7]

Anyone know if a runway map is available in order to follow the aircraft ?

[@H89SA]

I usually use planefinder.net.

[@thecheeta]

mikegallegos7 Google is your friend. flightaware.com/resources/airport/KJFK/APD/AIRPORT+DIAGRAM

[@mikegallegos7]

H89SA Found it; Thank you!

[@mikegallegos7]

Steve Costello Thank you, Steve!

[@suekelley2109]

So showing my ignorance here, do planes repeat everything ATC says at every airport or just the super busy ones like Kennedy? Do they just ever say “ok” or “roger that” instead of repeating back the instructions?

[@roberthudson1959]

Everything should be repeated. That is the only way to make sure that pilot and controller understand each other. One misunderstood syllable could cause an accident, and many of these pilots are from non-English speaking countries.

[@tomcorwine3091]

At every airport I’ve been to, read back of runway crossing instructions is required at the very least.

[@bac1111967]

Pushing tin was never as good as this.... NYC controllers really kick ass..... anyone know this guys name?

[@H89SA]

Steve Abraham. You have more videos of him on my channel. :)

[@Trek001]

H89SA Sounds like the legendary Boston John - perhaps trained by him

[@H89SA]

Trek001 I don't think so. Steve is an older guy. :)

[@michaelreid322]

A question for y'all: in this recording, the ground controller gives permission for planes and a car to cross the runway. Don't the runways strictly belong to the tower controllers?

[@ryanfan2008]

Michael Reid Depends on the airport of course, but sometimes if a runway is not the advertised runway or maybe even closed the ground controller could be in control of it.

[@emoluv54865]

A Ground controller over here at usually has control over an Unused or even an active Arrival runway . He just have to Consult with the Tower Controller or the Supervisor. Usually ground can give clearance for a crossing on an arrival runway with an aircraft on 2 - 4 mile final.

[@copy1533]

Could swear it's Delta 485 in the beginning oO Not that it matters at all, just noticed that and now wondering who's right :D

[@User0000000000000004]

No, you're correct. Lots of these transcriptions are incorrect.

[@boahneelassmal]

4:38 "thank you" not "I know"

[@JoshOnGuitar]

*AMERICAN SUPER TUG KENNEDY GROUND*

[@andrewberg9611]

That says Delta 485

[@aldousjosea.castro1887]

How does anyone else talk into this? Say for emergency?

[@norbert1636]

Oh HOHO xD

[@rainbowwriter672]

This is Kennedy Steve, no?

[@AmyAnnLand]

Yes.

[@heatherpearson7083]

Hello

[@H89SA]

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[@floridmonkey2723]

Is this Kennedy Steve?

[@User0000000000000004]

Your mom is Kennedy Steve

[@Surtistuff]

Wait.. a plane can't go over a broken pavement?

[@kchigley5309]

Well, they don't really state the condition of the pavement, but a takeoff ready Boeing 747 weighs in at about 900,000 pounds (~400 metric tons). The pavement could have broken due to something like rain washing out the sub-base underneath. In that case, there would be a hole underneath and a plane could get stuck/damaged.

[@BrentCWilliams]

There is also a risk of a smaller chunk of concrete getting sucked into an engine, which would be a very expensive problem.

[@edwin4362]

Wow. 333 likes and 3 dislikes!

[@reedermh]

10 dislikes now. Must be all the tugs.

[@AmyAnnLand]

That's a downvote percentage of 0.89%. Nice.

[@theGab320]

Lufthansa = DLH not DAL :)

[@H89SA]

I assume your annotations are turned off. It's a 7 minutes long video, you can't expect it to be without typing mistakes. :)

[@theGab320]

H89SA oh yes, I actually think it is not too difficult to have no mistakes in a 7 minutes video. anyways, with notifications on it makes sense :)

[@H89SA]

Gabriel Hartmann Trust me. It took me 5-6 hours to edit this video. ;)

[@B2BWide]

H89SA thanks, man, that's a load of work!

[@HERNANBACK]

How the hell people can understand english when they are speaking so rapidly? I think they understand more by context than by the words they are actually saying..

[@Nummer378]

+Strato Flight Thats' 100% correct, especially for non-native english pilots.