FUNNY Exchange between Pilot and Controller at JFK!

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[VASAviation]

I love pilots who send to me all their funny situations.

[MaxRovensky]

Good to know that Kennedy takeoff clearance is covered by LTT's "Trust Me Bro" guarantee

[stevenlarratt]

Just so people know, this isnt normal protocol, but this is a normal day at JFK...

[EvanBear]

Love how pilots always help out. Need to contact someone on a different frequency? No problem. Need to fly over a crash site? Absolutely, we'll circle and report. Gotta reach an airplane out of range? You know a plane still in range will be happy to pass the message on. There's so much cooperation to keep everyone safe and everyone is helping. Love to see (hear) it!

[commerce-usa]

The great thing about aviation is a desire to help with keeping things safe and working as a team to accomplish that.

[bahatumay]

2:07 "Stand by, I have a plan."
That's always a good thing to hear.

[frostedsiren]

"I have a plan. Imma use you as an antenna booster."
"Excellent plan."

[bamboostick]

the way he said ' hey 70V do you hear me its brickyard 5613 ' lmao im rolling on the floor laughing

[w.ryanbutler]

"N70V this is Brickyard...Tower says they have a phone number for you" **gives the phone number to a local movie theater**

[rabidtangerine]

I see some people who are worried or confused, but this is actually a standard procedure controllers are trained for. If you can't establish direct communication there are a few methods of secondary communication, one of which is relaying through another aircraft.
Small aircraft will have their radio antenna on all kinds of random spots, so it's possible (IMO likely) the aircraft had it turned away from the tower. I've heard from controllers where they can't hear an inbound plane, ask it to make a turn, and then can hear it perfectly because the antenna isn't covered any more. The radio is clearly working because he's able to communicate with Brickyard, and the tower made sure of that before relaying the lineup instruction and clearance.

[cryptobox]

If Kennedy Steve was still working, he'd have Delta Tug 2 relay for him. "You might as well do something useful while you're waiting."

[richsarchet]

The communications radio antena is almost always on the bottom of the plane. Sometimes with the towers transmitter on top of the tower, the engines and tail of the plane itself can block comms. Once you are airborne, all is well. I used to fly a Cessna 414 with Comm 1 anrena on the belly, bit Comm 2 was atop the tail...nearly always used Comm 2 for clearance delivery and ground, once in a while had to seitch to Comm 2 for takeoff clearance.

[shadinz]

I'm an ex-airport cop from a way smaller airport than JFK in Canada, now I'm somewhere else. But I have to say that I've always been in awe with the comms between ATC, pilots and ground personnel. So I'm saying it here, I know there's a lot of pilots and ATC that listens to the channel, but you guys are amazing at what you do and I truly admire you guys. In another life I wished to become ATC after my days as being a cop, but I buried this dream long ago 😂.

Of course I never wished something bad to happen, but my favorite moments were always the emergencies (Of course since I'm in this line of work...), but you guys can switch from being sometimes silly to real disciplined and concise when shit gets serious, and I truly always admired that.

And for VASAviation, Thank you for sharing those comms highlights. It makes me nostalgic from my old workplace and I love it. Keep the great work coming 😄

[gitargr]

The "SEE YA" will never not make me laugh.

[MSRTA_Productions]

Kudos to ATC & Brickyard for getting 70V off the ground 👏🏼

[marklupus]

Clearly something of a blind spot down at the approach end of 13R. Probably need another antenna array for smaller aircraft who's antennas don't have the height to get their transmissions over buildings and other obstructions.

[earthwindflier]

All hail Kennedy Steve. He left big shoes to fill.

[dougharris]

What’s FUNNY is pulling up this video only to revisit that day when I sat on the ramp in N4170V at Modern Aviation for an hour trying to pick up my clearance…tried every freq I could find to reach someone…the blast walls surrounding the FBO made it impossible…the FBO folks had no ideas on who I could call to get some sort of resolution. Finally the ramp marshalls thought that if I pulled over to the adjacent cargo ramp next to two 747’s I might have some better luck. That worked…received my clearance and taxi instructions all together. I taxied toward 13R via Quebec and was told to hold short at PF. The typical JFK traffic was lined up 10-20 planes deep on taxiway Papa so I was not holding up any departing traffic. While holding short at PF, ran into same NORDO issues…tried multiple freq’s…nothing…until Brickyard 5613 started relaying messages to me…they held short a bit on Papa and opened up some space for me to get to the runway…the sun was actually shining into 5613’s cockpit so could see the FO looking at me when he told me to line up and wait on 13R…was a clear VFR day and never felt that this unusual clearance for TO was in any way putting anyone in harms way. Appreciated the teamwork for sure…have flown into many bravo’s in the past with my Saratoga and have never had this type of ground communication issue…more frustrating than anything. I certainly appreciated however the great attitudes from ATC and the pilots that relayed messages to me to get me on my way…needless to say I may not be heading back to JFK anytime soon!

[realulli]

When I was in the (German) air force, one of my duties was manning the switchboard at Rhein Radar. We did indeed have a procedure for the case that the two parties of a (manually switched) call couldn't hear each other: We were supposed to stay in the line until we could tell they could hear each other and only then disconnect. If they couldn't hear each other, we were supposed to interrupt and relay.

In the 12 months I was in that unit I had one occasion when the two clients couldn't hear each other, so I announced that apparently they couldn't hear each other, I would be relaying their information manually. I repeated what each other was saying and we managed to get the information transmitted to the correct places. I don't remember the content nor the partners, it was 30 years ago. I think it might have been some estimate when a flight would be arriving in their airspace. This type of connection was rather rare, since most places had direct lines to the ATC units they were usually talking to, only connections that didn't have a direct line went through our switchboard. The switchboard itself looked like it was the flower of 1970s (maybe 1960s technology... ;-))

[redonk]

Doesn't matter what industry you're in... eventually you're going to end up helping someone else at work with something that is not a part of your job description.