Grumpy Controller Grounds Pilots

i would’ve had some very aggressive choice words for that atc if i was in the plane. ig i know why i’m not 😂

He absolutely needs to be gone! It reminds me of when i was in paramedic school and for students who were not being professional or learning. The instructor would say, "This is not a game we play." Not everyone is cut out for 911. Just like, not everyone is cut out for ATC. TY ❤

I’m noticing a degradation of performance, attitude, goodwill, professionalism in all industries. A particular concern where life is at risk. Flying, healthcare, law enforcement, military. Just look at recent plane crashes and in healthcare there are many buried skeletons. It’s widespread and it falls on policies and values that come from the top. Not the workers fault.

I used to live by an US Air Force base. We would be buzzed by aircraft virtually every day, at every hour. The people at our apartment complex sent a complaint, asking why the pilots had to be flying at 0300 Hours over their apartments.

I mean the flying Dutchman was using propeller plane, versus Chuck Yeager Jets

You need to spit it out. You over explain and keep repeating yourself.

The pilot offered the controller an easy out by leaving the pattern. The controller wanted to make this into a problem.

A comedian used to say give the houses near airports to deaf people. 🤪

What about Stella? Wanting a super hot girlie to date?

okay, so I’m in Redondo Beach and the planes from Torrance Airport fly right over our house. This ATC does not bring me comfort!

By the way, it's NASCAR pattern, not race track pattern, lol. Nascar only turns in one direction in an oval, a real racetrack has different types and angles of turns!

I really enjoyed the ads broken up by some aviation stuff.

I think there was one every four minutes.

I'm vindicated - MAGA Republicans suck. This is clearly San Carlos Airport on the San Francisco Peninsula. Incoming traffic to SFO is just further out over the bay. There was a huge flap over this airport and its ATC people just recently, which was at the same time Musk and Trump were doing their hatchet job on Federal ATC jobs. I defended the need for ATC people to be working this airport, just FOR THIS EXACT REASON. MAGA morons chimed in and said, "oh no. These pilots have lots of experience and they know what they're doing. Pilots land without ATC all the time. Times have changed; blah, blah, blah". Well, MAGA morons, the proof is in the pudding. Here you go, and there have been some instances of modern day pilots from San Carols drifting over the bay, and getting themselves into restricted air space. There's also small plane traffic flying all around from Palo Alto, located just a few miles south of San Carlos. This is a busy corridor, and San Carlos needs ATC people. Get over yourselves and your new austerity kick. If you want to cut many billions of dollars some place, look no further than into the secret 'black projects' that are not accounted for on anybody's books, except in restricted data bases at the Pentagon, and a few 'need to know only' memorandums being walked around those hallways. Congress never sees any of that stuff, so it's never discussed - by anybody!

Pilot should have said "Going Around" and if asked why he could have said "Not stabilized on approach". He could have done this all day. This sounds like the same contoller you talked about on another video.

I expect a much more professional response from atc

The ATC sounds pissed off at his company because he’s ended up working alone for eight hours. Then he uses that as an excuse for being inappropriately rude with what he knows is a student pilot being supervised by an instructor.

His aggression is misplaced, but even when he realizes that he’s gone too far, he still defends his actions by blaming his employer.

Although I can understand his frustration, his responses to the student pilot were totally inappropriate. So I totally agree that that’s where the blame lies here.

I can only imagine the effect this had on the student pilot. Not good.

If I were the student, I would be asking myself, “If this is what’s going to happen to me each time I try to fly again, do I really want to keep flying?”

I might even ask myself, “What would’ve happened if my instructor hadn’t been here with me? Is this the way it is all the time with flying a small plane—maybe I really don’t want to do this anymore.”

And although losing one student pilot is not going to make or break the industry, it’s still wrong because the ATC is teaching this student pilot that the ATC does not have his back.

The instructor will be impacted if he loses this student because ofthis incident. Lots of time, money, and public relations will be wasted because of this inappropriately harsh response by the ATC.

I am not a pilot, but based on my limited understanding of aviation, it sounds like the pilot is saying "I can't see the other airplane," and the controller is saying "It would be too much work for me to help you stay away from the other airplane." Isn't helping airplanes maintain a safe distance from other airplanes literally EXACTLY what ATC's job is? If it's "too much work" for him to help the pilot maintain a safe distance from other aircraft, then what exactly is he being paid to do?

The ATC guy was menstruating.

How days 2/27/25. The company is now Musk. Sadly

ATC is supposed to help pilots not intimidate students.this guy needs to be re-trained and reassigned.

He’s a liability.

Hahaha. The don’t live next to an airport side rant was great

Must be one of the worst controllers ever......who has never piloted a plane

Videos like these need a follow up IMO.

I hope that instructor filed a complaint about this controller, who was very unprofessional.

Sacramento International is doing the Same thing. People have bought new houses within a mile of an airport that WAS 5 miles out of town !! THIS controller needs TEN hours in a Cessna 150 !! Or a new job as BusBoy at Denney's !!

I grew up living in a house on the hill overlooking Torrance airport. Loved hearing the drone of small planes and watching them go by after taking off.

The controller is what i imagine Kelsey is like without snacks

I am an ex RAAF air traffic controller and I am gobsmacked at how unprofessional USA ATC is.

ATC suck these days

Obviously the controller was having a bad day however I agree that the ATC cross over the line and totally unprofessional.

I've always wanted to ... date a pilot?

Not any more this giù sounds like a contractor. They are able to work past mandatory retirement age. This is a Classic example of why privatizing the FAA is not a good idea. Someone should tell the orange bafoon and musk-rat to watch this video.

At kstc in these situations tower will tell you I’ll call your base and the next your hear them call you they just say turn base. Super simple and easy and avoids added stress

@74gear i would like to hear a story about a pilot asking a controller to copy a number so they. All the pilot. If theyre being a dick, of course. Has this happened? If not, what is a pilot's recourse?

Like this channel.

i don't now nor have i ever lived too near an airport, and i would never complain about airplane noise if i chose to. i live near the edge of a small town, and listening to folks here complain about the wildlife is tiring. they were here before we were, so i try to get along with them... if you can't live with the surroundings of your home, don't move there...

Agree, it can be very stressful for a student pilot in a busy circuit (pattern). I know it must be frustrating being ATC at a GA airfield but this controller is not helping and to be honest verging on unprofessional/dangerous.....and yes we have a lot of noise abailtment here in the UK which makes an approach even more complex/dangerous...why oh why do people live near an airfield then complain about noise from aircraft. It escapes me how entitled people are nowadays.

This happened to me 1997

I got the Controller fired

That air traffic controller was a jerk like 90% of the people in California

I would love to know if anything else came from this. Controller needs to learn how to deal with whatever he had going on.. He just thinks he was having a stressful day. God help us all the day he has to really deal with stress. Sounded very unprofessional to me!! Thank you Kelsey

If there was an accident I wonder how it would look if the student pilot said the controller was distracting me

I'm going to look at it different...
You are 100% right.
But if I was flying and dealt with this I would want to be on the ground and not in the air anymore.
The controller was clearly "triggered"

It is sad that I’ve seen, on a worldwide channel that I don’t really watch the San Carlos airport 2x with a snotty controller.

Anyone got his shift hours? I’m pretty close to this airport and this guy needs an offline “discussion”. 😉

I’m an AME and if I was ATC I would have spaced the aircraft out. After all these student pilots don’t mind as it’s less stressful on them .
Also as students you want to increase your flying hours as quickly as possible. Now 3 or 4 Kelsey pilots that may have been airborne for many hours want to land as early and safely as possible. ATC controller get another job.

I never had access to atc recordings and there was never a "button" or anything else to use to "mark" said place in a recording. Normally theres only 1-5 people who can access those records. It's kind of a fail safe incase an air traffic controller does something wrong they can't go and delete it.

It is a very stressful job, that doesn't mean he's right, but we are all human. This guy probably does very little air traffic control to be honest, its most likely an extremely slow airfield and that's why he's alone. To be fair, it's literally the hardest job to get in America with a failure rate from the beginning to end (to include the flight physical) of around 98%. There's a total of 14,000 air traffic controllers (including trainees) in america, for reference becoming a doctor is considered hard and there's hundreds of thousands of them in america.

Hey, that controller works at my airport now !