A day at the office...JFK style! Now for the disclaimer: every day isn't like this like it used to be. This most likely came about on a day when there was some sort of irop that that had a lot of metal on the ground in a congo line. Sorry to hear that a JetBlue may have been the cause of some of the confusion , but in their defense, sometimes things get busy with people stepping on each other and things get missed. Throw in a bunch of non-English speaking carriers, and it can get interesting!

Oy Veh....

Gump

They made it look so easy on "Pushin' Tin"

Maybe they need to go lay on the end of the runway more! Ok, I'm embarrassed to state that since it proves that I actually watched that horrible movie. What can I say, my father-in-law gave it to me and I felt obligated to watch it all the way through.

LOL! That's some funny stuff there! That would be very awesome to visit a busy tower like that someday. Might have to listen to "LiveATC.com" a little more. I think JFK is on there.

Wow! That controller must have had a really bad day. Some interesting stuff was coming out of his mouth.

It happens,

Been there done that. The lesson here is we are all human. It is also a reminder that ATC are in fact "coordinators." Don't buy the "controller" notion. You...the pilot in command has your hands on the controls, even on the ground. The buck stops with the PIC.....on the ground or in the air.

I would never want to work ATC in a busy terminal area. It is a very tough job and requires a bright minded person who makes accurate decisions rapidly. 99% of the time that is exactly what happens.

Once I was involved in a tangled mess at Chicago even worse than the situation on this tape. Ground control had a complete meltdown. Finally some pilot told ground control to "just stand by sir....we will straighten this out among ourselves." ATC said...."have at it." Pilots began to coordinate with one another on ground control. In a couple of minutes we were all untangled.

Have fun.

Bob

I LOL'd...that controller is hilarious. Even he was laughing a few times. His heavy accent reminds me of the Jerky Boyz.

Reminds me of when I was a controller at CVG. On a major outbound push you might have close to 70 airplanes calling for taxi within a few minutes of each other, plus arrivals, most of them Deltas and Comairs, painted alike. At night it was especially challenging to keep "the picture" of who was who and where; it just looked like a sea of lights. At that time CVG didn't have ASDE (surface radar) and you kept track with paper strips and memory. One time our east ground control (we had two grounds) got so far behind, kind of like this guy, that arrivals couldn't exit the runways. Tower had to start sending them all around, and we had to go into holding at the outer fixes. Sounds funny now, but I don't really miss it a whole lot.
Spent my last seven years here, at Denver TRACON.

Wounder how it is at the dinner table..

For 10+ minutes this guy never did fly off the handle. Surprising in NYC.......

Good stuff, Thanks for sharing!

Don

Resky wrote:For 10+ minutes this guy never did fly off the handle. Surprising in NYC.......

He was in a good mood that day. There was a point in his voice (which I immediately recognized) where I thought "Here is the fork in the road and here we go!" Well, he went left when I thought he was going to go right. It doesn't always go like that. Overall, the controllers at JFK are good and have personality. And, in this case, it was planes not going where they were told that jumbled things up.