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3-d chess while commenting on every move.
With potentially disastrous results if a piece is mis-moved
"It's a lot of things but I would not call it a good evening."
Kennedy Steve is the best!
Yes he is😎
😂 this got me
After listening to a couple of dozen of these I finally went and looked up the diagram for JFK. Now I understand why it's such a shitshow and ground is constantly battling... must be a hugely stressful job and you can either sweat your way through it or use humour to get you through, Steve obviously chose the latter approach, and it's great fun to listen to.
Despite the shutshow he prefers doing ground control.
JFK wasnt designed for jet airliners either, it was laid out in the era of propeller passenger service. The first jet airliner didnt arrive at JFK until 1950.
@@dannagy546Back when it was Idlewild…
I enjoyed how Speedbird 114 had excellent awareness of what Ground was likely to ask him to do here.
BA are a lot of bad things as of late, but always had top tier pilots!
Hi ! Great 😱 just discovered your channel. I'm a retired Lufthansa captain.,
enjoying "reliving" old memories.
Thanks a lot !
Some of your colleagues tried to cut in line on Steve on another clip, he mousetrapped them, and they were a bit sheepish in apologizing.
You might hear some of your own conversations Steven .
@@Nighthawke70 Doesn't mean Steven Cooper is a bad pilot. Very rude of you.
@@FireLordJohn3191 No, it just means he made some very bad judgement calls that cost him his honor and pride.
@@Nighthawke70 for decisions he didn’t make, he loses pride? That doesn’t make any sense.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Here's all the latest information on the sun sir..that thing is HOT!
(in back ground) The White Zone is for immediate loading and unloading. There is no stopping in the Red Zone.
@@Geopuzzler The Red Zone is for immediate loading and unloading. There is no stoping in the White Zone.
Got a belly laugh outa me sir
ROFL! OMG I miss that movie! LOL....and quit calling me Surely!! ROFL!
GND: Yes ma'am?
GND: No Way.
I wonder, what that was about? 🤔🤣
Sounded like he gave unprompted directions to a Tug after that and it would make sense that the signal wouldn't be as strong, so probably a Tug requesting to go to the same traffic jam everyone else was in.
@@rhpmike i bet it was tug 2!
Actually, I think it was a pilot asking to cross 31L, from her Hold point, to onward-taxi to another runway, cuz maybe it looked clear to her, and he said "No way" cuz he had other traffic due to come through quicker than she'd be able to cross... That's a safety hold, and life-saving. ;)
"Ask you a question?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Do my shoes go ok with this get up?"
@@andreicmello bwahaha
Unmatchable talent and professional expertise. A total and absolute expert at what he does. Hat's off to you Steve!
Steve Kennedy is brilliant. He should have been a brain surgeon instead of a ground controller at JFK
The way he handles traffic is like the conductor of a symphony orchestra. I have listened to many of his videos and he is "THE BEST" in the business in my opinion!
4:16 his voice cracked when he said SUPER. This guy is a legend.
fancy pants ~super~
This is the comment I was looking for 😂🤣 What does SUPER heavy mean?
@@Syclone0044 A380, I think.
@@FireLordJohn3191 It is A380 + also for the largest cargo plane. They create more wake turbulence + need a wider berth, + they need more separation in the air. It alerts ATC + other pilots in the vicinity.
SPEEDBIRD is the coolest callsign in the world imho
This reminds me so much of those sliding puzzles.
Don’t know about a meltdown, this Audio simply shows how exceptional these controllers are. Kudos to the gentleman controlling, one of the main reasons that Aviation is so safe now and these people are a blessing to us pilots, keep up the great work and thanks for sharing this snippet of of life on the Aviation waves
I think the meltdown occurred on the runway. The pilots and controller worked very well together to get everything running smoothly again.
He just lined up like 12 planes, and pushed them past 35L. He'd be a genius herding cats.
Advise for any pilots flying JFK with Steve on ground, taxi as fast as traffic and speed restrictions will allow at all times....
That's good advice in any public transportation situation with vehicles.
It's called "move with a purpose."
@@albertsampson6568 I prefer “youthful enthusiasm” 😂
@@speed150mph 😂😂😂Lol yeaah!!! My favorite too!!!
I think normally he wouldn't have been that concerned, but because of the shitshow on the ramp, he wanted planes out of there as fast as he could move them.
Not only is Kennedy Steve a MAHOOSIVE Legend, he's unbelievably good at his job. This man's attention to detail in such a phenomenally complicated workplace is mind boggling!!
I used to load special cargo on 747-400 or c-5 size planes daily. 2-3 times a year we had one of those Russian Antanov planes come in.. it was so strong we had to tie down everything above ground. The poor guy in the small plane had to wait like 15 mins. Before he could fly behind him.
Sucker was so big it held well over 100 ton plus three helicopters.
The pilots were crazy.. if you had shady,secret or J.I.T. cargo... As long as you pay cash, they'd take anything anywhere no questions asked.. long as the weight was correct they wouldn't check the manifest and get the destination once they were wheels up.
Loved watching it fly in slow motion. Your mind can't comprehend how it stays in the air..
Just for the sake of correction, i think they're called Antonovs. Yw
@@D4RKBRU73 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov They are called Antonov.
I flew C-5 Galaxys. Pretty similar.
Well that’s not particularly clear. You mean the 225 or an earlier version? At least the 225 has jets, I would be terrified in a prop plane that big. I don’t care if technically props can be safer and not necessarily just dead weight with an engine failure, I prefer my planes non-shaky.
Then again Russian pilots probably fly like they drive.
@@newname4405 da, with lots of vodka!
I had a friend that worked ATC Heathrow. First thing he'd do after work when he got home was to get a good strong cup of tea with a tot of whiskey in it... And he earned it!!!!
This was arguably Kennedy Steve's best work.
How can he possibly keep his sense of humor under those conditions? Love listening to Steve!
If you think about it, his humor is what diffuses the stress.
I still come for these - it makes me feel alright with the world
OMG! I can't imagine how you can remember all of that, I understand that he have a radar or something, but... wow! And other pilots need to listen all the time what he is saying and not to miss info for them and then understand and repeat it...
I love flying and it's very interesting to be able to see a little of what is happening before your flight started. Thank you for this videos!
Sorry for my English :)
These aviators -- pilots and controllers -- are the definition of professional. Their experience and training over the years allow them to accomplish the superhuman communications you hear here. The controller, Steve Abraham is among the very best in his profession, and uses humor to ease the tensions controllers and pilots experience that result from the extreme workload and high stakes of moving all the aircraft safely and efficiently -- even when part of the team (in this case, Ramp Control) is, as Steve has put it, "a modicum of efficiency!"
owtena - your English is excellent!!
Your English is better than my... well, anything else. Possibly even my English.
There is NO amount...not ONE that would ever convince me to do this for a living. What a stress factory....
1 million dollars
This reminds me of that time a French ATC in my local small, regional airport "fell asleep" (wasn't paying attention) on the job and an airbus crashed 20-ish years ago.
Because he wasn't looking at the radar it took them a few days to find the massive wreck.
That was kind of an achievement seeing as most of where I live is open plains with fields...
Which flight would that be ?
@@lvthud Dunno, but I'm fairly certain the company was Air France.
Only the best, for the buisest, too many lives depend on it, what a talent, boom THANKYOU
How can one man juggle so many aircraft and get it all right? Surely he can't keep up that pace for more than a few minutes at a time! And still he manages to keep a sense of humor, which promotes his good relationship with the pilots. Whatever he is paid, he deserves double.
Joe Shupienis below said, "It is so nice to hear professionals working professionally, with appropriate humor and cooperation. So different from so many other parts of life!" I heartily agree!
Well, as I've learned from an Interview with Kennedy Steve, they work 2 hours max before taking a break.
Amazing. Good to know what kind of control they have over these planes. It's very comforting. Thanks Steve! ✌️♥️
God bless these guys who do this job.
He is amazing! I couldn't do that job at all. Like herding cats ... lol!
Very professional and co-operative from all concerned.
Can anyone imagine how stressful the job of a controller doing the approach/depature job is - or rather HAS been before they introduced computer aided radar terminals? Only thing they had was the radar signal and the mode3 info. So they had to take all this 2-dimensional info and transform it into a 3-dimensional picture in their head to maintain separation. Having said "has been" - there are still plenty of airports all around the world - even very busy ones - where they don't have the new-gen radars. Now throw some weather and terrain obstacles into the mix and you have ballgame ^^
ceemosp a
ceemosp that's why they make 6figures and have the highest rate of killing them selves of any job in the world.
You could say with the modern tech the job runs á la CART.
Nah, man, this dude at JFK Ground is BRILLIANT! 👏🏼😅
I love how Steve told one of the taxiing aircraft, 'I still have to work out a few things first'. I thought, he can still do that whilst handling all those aircraft?? :O
The more I watch these the more shocked I am that planes don’t crash into each other constantly at airports
I'm so hooked. I need to go to ATC rehab!!
I just want to spend 5 minutes inside an ATC controller's head to see what it's like. I don't think I could handle the pace much longer than that.
Exchange at 1:38 is the BEST! Pilot asked for info again and ATC (Steve) Slowed Down on the repeat. That Saved! So! Much! Time! This is at Kennedy Airport, too.
Too many planes, not enough places to put them, yet Steve juggled them until all the pieces finally fit. He did it with skill, courtesy and wit, and it will be a long time before he is actually replaced, if ever.
He said in an interview that this airport was designed long ago before large jets, + that the geometry is bad.
Kennedy Steve the greatest.
After listening to a bunch of these I have so much more respect for all the people in the tower ….did not know they had to deal with this Yeeesh I’d pull what little hair I have out.
Thank you for your feedback! 😃
Since Steve retired, can't they just tear down JFK (except the tower) and rebuild it like Atlanta or DFW? lol
I love hearing the people from all over the world
Thanks alot again.. hard work at the tower :)
This is such a beautiful thing. Makes me smile
These guys are amazing.
I guess many of the videos including this are recorded night time. But i like so much. Thank you
gkwns747ify Yes, most of them are recorded in night time. Thank you for watching! :)
Holy crap!
The towers have it heavy!
Too much stress...
Shit that's stressful as hell controller screams into a pillow every 15 minutes just to stay sane
3:58 HAHAHA "join the parade..."
THIS is why they will never take pilots out of the cockpits no matter how sophiticated their AI is.
Holy shit....there would be no way i could keep all that straight, lol
I remember a parkinglot that was this busy -- and handled in a similar way, when everyone wanted to go home at the same time. It was the Abbottsford Air Show circa 1982. I had my five year old with me and all my camping gear, and was trying to find my friend's car. 😄😅😟😣
"we had problems with the ground crew"
- theres still a truck behind you hehehe
"standby"
you know that after that standby he went full british on the ground crew.
Wow, number 16 to takeoff, with 3-4 minutes between takeoffs, that's about an hour of waiting in line.
Wow! That was intense!! Excellent 👍👍
8:11 i can practically aee the shit unclogging and the airport clear up.
And i can hear the relief in his voice.
Phew
There is definitely some similarity with boats.
What a mess, but he seem to manage it very well :)
this atc guy is amazing,
It's like listening to another language.
Yes, ma'am.
NO WAY.
5:53 - Is he giving climb-out instructions too?
The aircraft received an initial clearance based on a combination of their route and the runway configuration in use at the time the clearance was issued. Because they've changed runways, Steve (or Clearance Delivery if Ground was too busy to issue the amendment) needs to issue revised climb-out instructions for the new runway configuration.
wow, well done by the ground controller.
I SOOO Miss Steve!
This guy is getting no help is he haha
I been watching these for a few weeks. What does Steve mean when he says, “follow the company”. What is the company?
"The company" in the way two colleagues might refer to their employer - means another plane from the same airline.
All these different countries... it's a small world.
I wouldn’t be a ground controller for all the money in the world!
love hope polite the speedbird pilots are
Kennedy Steve......he is truly amazing!! but I don't think he likes working ground. LOL
Ground G's a fricken BOSS!!
Had to like, Share & Sub! Thx!!!!!!
#WHISKEYTANGOFOXTROT
I like that guy!!
didn't know what he was in for as a young crossing guard.
And to think I wanted to do atc after being in Air Force
So sad
Kennedy Steve retired
Guy is AWESOME
The tower is BAWSMAN
This guy is great
a 10 minute vid. no wonder it took u so long. nice one :)
I'm just glad I don't have to fly!!!!!
Black Snow When "heavy" is added to a callsign it is referring to the aircraft size, i.e capacity. A 757 would be a "heavy" but a 737 would not.
+Rich F Heavy means anyone that can cause 2 miles of turbulence behind them on takeoff. 737 I still think are "heavy"
+Rich F where the new A380's are SUPER
Is a 75 considered heavy? Thought only big profile aircraft like 777 and 747 were heavy
737 is not heavy. 757, however, is classified as heavy, though I believe it's the smallest aircraft with that designation.
+jadall77. Almost any airplane can leave wake turbulence 2 miles behind it. I can do that in a PA-28 that weighs under 2,000 lb (and you can definitely feel it when you hit it, too.) According to the FAA's Pilot-Controller Glossary (the definitive source for definitions of aircraft radio terms in the U.S.,) the definition of "Heavy" for wake turbulence separation purposes is aircraft with maximum takeoff weight in excess of 300,000 lb (though the 757 was also designated as Heavy even though it's a bit under that, due to concerns that its wings produced more wake turbulence than normal for its size.)
lol... Telling the EgyptAL to follow Virgin and the pilot responds "Follow the Virgin"... that's funny...
This is incredible holy shit
I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts this is either JFK or LAX. Although I s'pose there might be an American ATC or two at LHR. But after listening to this, this is precisely why I avoid huge airports like the plague. Granted, I've been to Hartsfield in Atlanta and Metro in Detroit, and they are both big honkin' airports, but they're probably still small in comparison to JFK, and LAX. LaGuardia isn't quite as massive, but it's still a nightmare, and Newark? Well, let's just say the less said about it, the better.
I sympathize with the ATCs. They are working with an antiquated system that is nearly a century out of date. To analogize: what they have to work with to keep the planes up and flying is the equivalent of a two-lane road, when we should be on a 12 lane freeway!(6 lanes coming and going) The hub and spoke flight path design is way obsolete, too. It causes way too many bottlenecks at just a small handful of large airports that end up overwhelmed with all the traffic that things get backed up. And if the weather looks iffy.....! I've read a number of articles on how the airlines would like to put an end to the hub and spoke design and change it to point to point. This is how the majority of people are travelling now as it is. It will remove the pressure off these huge, overcrowded airports, and hopefully reopen some of the regional airports that were shut down due to exorbitant oil prices, and possibly open some midsize municipal airports to relieve the flow of air traffic. Also, with much, much more sophisticated radar, satellite and other air control equipment, we could have that freeway in the sky, with less accidents and less stress on the pilots and the ATCs. Just my two cents worth.
Steve.. hey guy's I'm bored.. I'm gonna have a game of tetris..
Apparently 45 minutes is a fast departure time..
03:27 lol
N0 wonder those ATC drink.
Like rounding up cats :)
What a stressful job lol. Sheesh. How many planes are there anyways?!?!?!?! Damn JFK. Such a popular destination. Hope all flights get canceled. Hahahahahahaha. Give him a little breathing room.
honey , im home :)
This is the departure frequency ,ain't?
AsHalt No, GND stands for the ground frequency.
***** OIC , got me confused there...
SUPER airbus 380
Lalala cross three one left monitor one two three niiiiiiiiiiine
Su-**crack**-per airbus!
Is it just me or does JBU1561 sound a lot like Captain Joe?
Umut Yelbaşı
He might, but Captain Joe never flew to JFK when Steve (this controller) was working.
For those coming here thinking the ATC will have a meltdown, he doesn't, the ramp went to hell, but Steve as ever was calm and into control.
He has great analytical + organizational skills, to figure it all out very quickly, to keep things moving!
In comparison to what’s normal this is an absolute meltdown and totally uncharacteristic tirade. It’s all relative.
Probably because ramp controllers are ground handlers who would recruit anyone, whereas ATC is very difficult to get into it. In the UK ground controls the gates and it works well.
it's really amazing that one guy is responsible for helping get literally a million people to and from their destinations
Lol, JFK is run by a lot more than one guy. Ground is different from approach and tower and gate and so on, his specific job is to deal with planes on the tarmac either en route for takeoff or coming in to a gate. Hence the issue here - the gate is run by the company separately I believe, and as you can tell he has to relay requests to them if they aren’t doing well. Basically, that gate f’d up.
It is astonishing the fluidity with which aircraft are passed between different controllers at different stages, and impressive that any can keep track so well though, no doubt. It’s just more like a complex watch where each gear is a person rather than one all powerful overseer. You can see how complicated just one piece is after all.
Also, I don’t work ATC or anything so I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure over time the results of mental fatigue have been recognized and they try *not* to keep them overworked too long. At JFK I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 1-on 1-off hours or something like that, and limit it to maybe 8 total, idk, point being I don’t think they total even near 8 full hours on the clock, nobody could do this all day. So he isn’t personally talking to every crew on the ground that day. Some fraction of the planes though certainly
Yeah..... He killed himself. After the Obama and Trump shutdowns.
@@newname4405 I realize Steve is GRND, but it was confusing when I heard him giving Take off directions to a few of the pilots. That confused the heck out of me! He was telling them to fly RNWY heading 280 or whatever to meet his DME. That is the tower that would do that isn't it? So, that puzzled me why Steve at GRND was giving departure instructions. Weird...I must have missed something
@@TheStoneWhisperer I Was wondering the same thing...
@@TheStoneWhisperer If tower is busy, GRND will give departure instructions aswell. Also they probably have standardized procedures when there´s multiple aircraft taking off one after another.
These controllers must have the weirdest dreams at times.
Kennedy Steve could instruct you how to solve a rubics cube over a kids walkie talkie
The last minute proves that this guy is a maestro - everything cleanly exits and he hits the target repeatedly at the end. Well done! Bravo, Maestro!
+Sukhrajah His name is Stephan Abraham AKA "Kennedy Steve"., and I agree with the maestro.
+TheMILVET I agree, the thing I respect most in life is people who are good at what they do, and this guy certainly is.
When you get two long bricks in Tetris at the perfect time...
@@TheTigero Precisely what I do!