Funniest Pilot & Air Traffic Control Conversations

Funniest ATC Air Traffic Control conversations from New York JFK Airport Tower and pilots from around the world. Starting off with a captain hearing strange sounds on the Tower radio "sounds like a small child singing Justin Bieber" and the usual between British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and American Airlines banter at JFK Airport. Making the Funniest ATC video pure comedy and also insightful.

[worldaviationk]

What airport/airline do you want me to film in the future

[nycot]

"Am stay"
"Nah Imma stay"
"We figured it out"
LOL

[scopie]

The best one by far is the controller telling the two planes to figure it out. So they both agree to not move at all. Burst out laughing at that. Problem solved.

[cayl]

I love how the ATC was going off about bothering him and the guy was like "but I need to talk to you 🥺👉👈" 😂

[pepshaven]

That poor dude is gonna be dreaming of whiskey charlie and crossbreeds for years to come.

[wing]

That British Captain is a saint for staying patient with the woman who didn't understand that he can't taxi workout engines 😩

[MaxTwst]

ATC - I don’t have an exact time.
BA - Can I have a rough time.
😂😂

[fishkbcf]

Tower controllers are saints lol. It’s like herding a bunch of very sarcastic cats lol.

[xChaleur]

Damn. Even planes fighting for parking space

[firstlt]

I had a Controller in Newark once do the "Don't call us we'll call you", after a little over 2 hours of waiting the frequency started to settle down and I decided to call about our status. Their response was "You guys are still here?!!!"

[odysseusrex]

I love the conversation where the tower kept telling the plane to move, the pilot kept patiently explaining that his engines were not on and asking permission to start them, only to be told he couldn't do that where he was and he would have to move, to start his engines. I think that ground controller needed a bit more training.

[MilleusPetrozza]

A pilot friend of mine once told me that the most challenging thing a pilot does is not flying the plane, but operating and conversing through the radio.

[TaeNyv]

"They're in their seat, just not the right one" .. best line of 2019...

[Subject__]

"it SOUNDED like you could be a little grumpy"

" *DID HE REALLY Transmit THAT* ?! " I miss that New York attitude hahah

[hazmatt]

“Everyone needs to stop talking to me at once or nothing gets done .”

“….but I need to talk to you.”

Lol it’s like being in a second grade classroom

[tjwag]

A few weeks ago I landed and told the tower ‘I may have hit a groundhog on the runway!
Somebody replied: ‘Oh, great, six more weeks of winter.’

[will]

Pilot "Lol are you telling me to slow down because of the traffic behind me?"
ATC: yes
Pilot: well im in front of them soo!

[punitaiyengar]

The one pilot who called the other guy a ‘pinhead’! 😂😂😂

[Deserthacker]

1:57 is the best one by far. Pilot reporting "We figured it out!" like it's a grand achievement of sorts while what they actually did was to decide who goes first.

[wizpopr]

After being a controller for 21 years, I can relate to the Nippon conversation. I had a Korean helicopter pilot request landing, and I told him to hold north of the field for traffic and he say's, "roger, we land now" and flew across the final approach course in front of a fighter doing about 160 mph. When I marked the tape and went to file a hazard report, we found out that he had an emergency that he did not declare. Luckily he didn't create an even larger one.