Controller GETS MAD AT STUDENT PILOT for Following Rules!
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Loved that student pilot's attitude! Also good on ATC for finally accomodating the guy!
Hey Victor. Was wondering if we should send video recommendations to your email in your channel description?
@@bludybrains send all the info to the email
@@VASAviation i sent one last week to you about a taxiing event in KMLB. But never got a response. Im wondering if my email didnt go through.
Sounded more like an instructor.
@@steven2145it was me. At the time was just a PPL. Since then have gone on to get my CSEL.
Student pilot handled that beautifully and professionally and it softened the controller up pretty well so he could recover from the frustration. Fantastic exchange which could've easily gone south.
Sounds like he's got a future in aviation. It takes a fair bit of intelligence to respond with that kind of coherence on a dime in a situation like this.
Great young pilot.
Facts. I admire this. Following the rules can save your life someday. That controllers petty mood shifted so fast, it’s comical.
Yeah honestly exemplary from that student. Stayed calm and collected.
good thing it went west!
Hey this was me lol 😂😂I have since got my CSEL and can accept a 5kt tailwind per sop lol
Congrats!! Expect more “mad” controllers throughout your career 😅
Not your fault or anything but I gotta be honest, not being able to take a 5kt tailwind is super dumb.
But their airplane their rules I guess.
@@BlackOpSourceit's dumb until it's not
SOPs sometimes appear overkill until you learn about why they were implemented
@@--SPQR-- The plane comes with an SOP, it's called the POH and is required to be in the aircraft. Every airplane I can recall flying had performance information for tailwinds up to 10 knots on both takeoff and landing.
This restriction was put there by the insurance company, who for safety reasons would prefer that you never fly the airplane at all.
This is incompetent and dangerous. Not your fault, but the schools.
Student said the magic word “unable.” And gave his reason. Controller didn’t like it and definitely showed that he didn’t like it. But student stuck to his word. Well done by the student. He showed PIC. And I totally understand why the controller was frustrated with this but he understood the situation as well once explained.
Channeling his inner Sully.
I woulda told him Titusville north 16 nm. See ya. Im a CPC and a license holder thats obscene. Need to update their SOP so id punish their students everytime. Did my PPL training at a one way in one way out field took tailwinds a lot as a student pilot.
@@idkjamesYou can’t punish the pilot for following SOPs. Their SOP might be stupid and not make any sense, but I’m sure there’s a reason.
@@StolenJoker84 dont have to reverse flow either
I think that was the IP talking? Either way yes good airmanship, MLB is infamous for being short with students.
Practically speaking, a four-knot tailwind on a 10,000 foot runway would be no big deal. However, if you violate the SOP once and get away with it, it becomes tempting to violate it again, possibly with a stronger tailwind. It's called "normalization of deviance" and you don't want to go there.
Kudos to the student pilot for refusing the clearance to 9R. I understand the controller's frustration but he did the right thing by updating the ATIS and turning the flow around.
100% agree
Normalization of deviance is what caused the Challenger shuttle disaster. There’s a really good video about it and normalization of deviance.
"Normalization of deviance", haven't heard that one before. I like it.
@@wdtaut5650 The phrase was coined by American sociologist Diane Vaughan in her 1996 book _The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA._
It's an extremely useful concept for explaining how people get into situations that one would think they would know to avoid.
@@johnopalko5223 Thank you.
That's hardly mad, rather mildly frustrated.
Must be a slow news day :) not a bad thing in aviation
telling him he can go to another airport seemed a bit more than "mildly frustrated."
@@maurice7413 not knowing when he could get them in he gave them an option.
He was rude and unprofessional. Sure not yelling angrily, but more than mildly frustrated.
@@plinsf its not clickbait, go read comments farther down from here, multiple people have stated MLB controllers are unhinged.
That ended up kinda fine on both ends. I thought the controller asking “you can’t take a 4 knot tailwind on a 10,000ft runway?” was kinda funny. Didn’t seem mad, I mean the man has a point! Glad it didn’t get crazy heated and they all just worked together. It seemed pleasant at the end honestly.
I don't know what he was flying, but I remember doing my first landing on a 10k runway in a 172. I was a brand new pilot but with the giant flat grass leading up to the runway it was like easy mode. I think we were reconfigured for taking back off before we got past the touchdown zone markers.
@@RichFreeman He’s flying a Cherokee, so same idea haha!
We once had a tailwind landing with a 172 on a runway which is much shorter than 10,000ft without overshooting the landing roll, so I'm sure the student won't overshoot if he's flying a similar aircraft, but if he's not allowed to do it because it's a rule in his company, then he shouldn't do it, or he'll get in trouble for that. At least the controller was open for amending the instructions so that the student won't violate his company rule.
Yeah the controller seemed annoyed but no real issues. And the question was fair, he can't know the SOP for every outfit.
Not only do tailwinds affect the length of the ground roll, but also yaw stability (i.e. ground loops). This rigid policy would make sense for non-steerable tailwheel aircraft, because tailwinds decrease rudder authority during ground roll.
Knowing and following SOP and clearly communicating. This guy is ready for the airline world.
To work in an airline with similar idiotic SOP. This kind of operations should not be even allowed.
@@KoiranenAerospace This student obviously has the skills to be able to communicate within the company to fix the SOP.
Student pilot did an amazing job. Great communications everything was crystal clear.
FIT42 was top notch. You could hear the other students wobble a bit. Because they're students................ good luck to all of them.
"tower if you can tell me that winds are calm, i can take 9R..."
😁
That's practically asking him to lie...
@@Relkond you're a quick one
@@t_t5222 nah - the quick one would have noted that lying and subterfuge in aviation has a greater tendency to kill than not doing those things.
@@Relkond no, the quick one would have realized that the original comment is very obviously a joke.
SOP: don’t land with tailwind
Tower: ???
Other guy: your wind readouts are garbage.
Tower: true.
Sounds like an issue that this particular school is on top of.
Inaccuracies go both ways tho.... if the rule is for tailwind safety, how does it guard against an incorrect headwind from the tower that is actually a tailwind?
@@Kincentceasy answer. Liability. These convos are obviously recorded so the student would be in the clear if they were given a headwind but it turned out not to be. Not their fault.
@@mrjaycam18 legally correct but still silly to invent a rule around a bad windspeed readout
@@Kincentc It seems like this is how humanity generally works )
Makes perfect sense. If they have a habit of inaccurate wind readings, the only ones that are going to matter are when the wind readings are low. So it becomes a pattern of low wind readings (i.g. you said 5, it was 15. you said 15, it was 30, so on) So it makes sense for a local school to say "we set out limit extra low to cover the potential high variance of their BS equipment." If we say you said accept a wind reading of higher than 4, than that could cover up to 8 or 12 for their shyt equipment. Makes perfect sense. What's sad is if there are others who don't care enough to do that.
Good on the student for sticking to their SOP's even if winds seem relatively benign. Safety in aviation is built on adherence to safe & consistent practices, even though it may sometimes be tempting to just "send it". The controller wasn't really a bad person in this either. He had to get the airliner, who was already inbound for 9, down on the ground before he could switch the traffic flow. Sure he could've been a little "nicer" in the beginning, but it seems tensions cooled down at the end there.
probably sick of the students and his job also
I mean it was not unsafe at all to land with a 4th tail wind on a 10k foot runway. I commend him for following his schools procedures though.
Follow the procedures and you’ll almost always be safe. The tower guy knew it, and he accepted it in the end it was the right thing to do.
ATC was a fine guy, he even apologised, probably just had a bad day.
Yeah don't see a big issue here. Mild annoyance at a pretty unusual request, then worked to get him in quickly and safely.
"You might want to go to a different airport" honestly is an appropriate reccomendation if your SOP prevents you from landing with ANY tail wind and this is a field with major airlines.
He didn't apologize. "The different airport" was a bit out of line, not a big issue tho.
You must be commenting on the wrong video. ATC didn't apologize for anything in this video.
He's not a "fine guy". His initial attitude is dangerous. If he did it here, it is very likely that it represents a pattern of behavior. He's letting his emotions impact his performance and that's not what we need with ATC
@@brian.webster Isn't the overly familiar chit chat at the end a break of proper communication hygeine too? The entire frequency doesn't need to hear "have a nice night guys" to a plane already on the ramp.
That honestly went about as well as it could have. Controller doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, but no GA plane should ever expect to just mosey on over to an airport with airline ops and expect them to bend over backwards for an overly conservative flight school SOP. Good on FIT42 for being amenable to holding, and the controller for not having an attitude about it after the fact.
I mean the tower was still being passive aggressive throughout the entire time afterwards, just not towards 42.
The flight school is based out of there. Most tower controllers have some familiarity with their local school’s overly conservative rules for things like tail winds and LAHSOs. Felt real goofy the day I had to tell the Bradley international controller I was unable to accept a LAHSO when its distance was 50% longer than the entire runway my flight school was based out of.
This isn't JFK. AirNav says Melbourne has 284 operations per day, of which 4% (or 11) are commercial. I trained at KPIE, which has many more airline ops and the controllers never had any problems accommodating us. Sometimes we had to circle or extend downwind to fit into the flow. But I never would have heard something like this.
@@bbgun061 Correct. FIT is most of the daily traffic there
@@someguyontheinternet7165do those flight schools clear their procedures with the FAA? I mean, anybody with an instructors license could give a student a crazy instruction and it isn't like ATC has to honor it unless the pilot wants to declare an emergency.
There is certainly no FAA regulation preventing pilots from landing with a tail wind without a commercial license. It is pretty common for commercial airports to operate with slight tailwinds if it fits their normal patterns.
I initially thought the tower was going to be passive aggressive the rest of the time but he actually showed quite a bit of class towards the end. Good on The student to set the standard.
MLB controllers talk to these guys every day. Many I'm sure are friend with the controllers so it wouldn't do any good to act a fool. Kind of odd that he only learned of that school's tailwind policy during this occasion.
@@marklupus I’m surprised about that too. Normally that’s something airport operations are very aware of. Either way this was a much better outcome than what the title suggests.
Excellent communication by the student and good job sticking to procedures
The only way to know for sure that everything's ok is when you get a crispy SEEYA from the controller.
Honestly I always smile when I hear that exchange or get one back from a controller.
When the Chiefs were getting ready to play the superbowl, every once in a while someone would be handed off and they’d yell “GO CHIEFS”. And the approach and center guys would yell it back. It always made me laugh. Cool
As hell. And then we won the superbowl again 😍
Just like the one in Truckee
Of course the cirrus calls in without the atis
They fly by their own rules 😅
the frustration was real on that one, "you can't do a 4 knot tailwind landing on a 10k foot runway?"... I felt that eyeroll from the other side of my monitor, lol
Wouldn't really even call this ATC being mad. Everyone did the right thing here, ATC realized he can't force the student to go against SOP and then got the JetBlue in before changing the actives. Telling the student to hold while switching the actives was absolutely acceptable, and everyone got in no problem following that. Good work on everyone involved.
Only problem I had Tower should have never told FIT42 to squak VFR. Former FIT student Class of 76, Former ATP retired ATCS
This was an impressive exchange. The student here was 100% professional, said exactly the right things and did what he was asked. The controller is dealing with a lot and his frustration showed. However, in the end, the situation didn't get worse, it got better and everyone understood each other's perspective in the end. Thanks for sharing this great interaction.
The student was perfect, the controller was arrogant and wrong. This is very concerning, especially with a student pilot who might just accept a bad clearance. It's not about a 4 knot tailwind on a long runway, it's about roles, responsibilities and safety. I've been in a few situations like this over the years (rare but it happens) and it's those times the pilot needs to remind the controller that he's not the pilot in command, as this excellent student did. The pilot and controller should work together, but the pilot is responsible for the safe completion of the flight (see FAR 91.3). For example, I was flying from OKC to CLT IFR in an unpressurized single when a line of t-storms built up over Knoxville, so Memphis Center and I discussed it and then I diverted south. On contact with Atlanta Center I was instructed to proceed direct to Knoxville. I replied, "Unable due to weather". The controller came back sarcastically with, "You can't fly to Knoxville?", to which I replied, "Unable due to the line of thunderstorms I just vectored 80 miles south to get around, request direct CLT (I was on a GPS direct clearance)". Another, more mature voice came on and asked "Sir, can you accept direct Spartanburg VOR then direct?" "Yes sir, I can do that!" Again, most controllers are great and many more times I've had great experiences with controllers going out of their way to help, but this arrogant attitude should never be acceptable. It's counter to aviation safety and should be actively discouraged.
The controller was quite rude and sarcastic. I don't find that acceptable... especially since the pilot was perfectly polite.
I’m not sure I would consider him mad. I consider this a perfect quick and professional conversation between pilot and ATC. Everyone on both sides should learn from this. That’s why I’m here! Thanks VAS!
i mean,he literally told him to go to another airport. How is that professional?
wel if the controler knows he can not acomodate that might be the best option as piston powerd aircraft have a defined time they can be up in the sky
@@vanessaruiz4705
Meteorologist here. If the wind readouts
Are
Bad. The station has to be downgraded to AWOS until it is fixed
Or use the $ in the text message
Why is it spaced like it’s supposed to be an acronym?
@@jurgengjidia8657 why I spaced my comment out? Just the spacebar being so close to enter.
@@jurgengjidia8657 Just read the first letter of each line. MABO!
@@jbreezy101Downgraded to "automated weather observing system"? Where can I look this rule (or at least the different grades of weather stations) up?
@@RJiiFin Yep, MABO always applies, in situations like this.
I've been based at MLB for ~30 years. The tower gets a bad rap with the flight training community but they have to put up with a lot. Since the tower went contract, they've been chronically understaffed and the flight training traffic is at its peak. Over the years I've heard some pretty bad exchanges but recently, to their credit, the controllers seem to have become more patient. I've flown thousands of flights out of there, and I've only dealt with a controller having a bad day a handful of times. They're human.
What does "went contract" mean?
@@captainchaos3667 The FAA contracts a company to hire controllers instead of the FAA hiring the controller themselves
ahh, the "ssSSEEYUH" signoff, the ultimate sign of respect between pilot and controller. best possible ending imo for something that couldve turned ugly
I love shit like this. Controller was slightly frustrated and I understand his point and the student handled it like a boss. Everyone was able to have a good laugh at the end. Good on everyone
Is Squidward flying FIT36? 😂
Awesome that the student stayed calm, awesome that the controller calmed down. Great example of how important attitude is.
I love ya Victor but don't jump the shark and get all click baity on us. You could call him annoyed but the all caps MAD AT STUDENT PILOT is a bit of a stretch. 🤣
Exacccttttly
My opinion, my titles. Also based on the email from the follower. You should check out the vast majority of commenters locals from MLB. Calling clickbait is your own opinion too :)
@@VASAviation its ALL of our opinion
@@VASAviationAmerican English Apparently is NOT your mother language. You need to study / educate yourself more about the meaning of the word “mad”…. 🤷🏼
MLB has some of the rudest controllers dealing with flight training…
Great video for showing that conext matters. If you had cut off the video after the first exchange i would have a very different opinion of the controller 😅
Exactly!
Very pro behaviour from the pilot, and good on ATC for lightening up.
Yup, sounds like Melbourne tower
This is a really great exchange from both. I'm impressed at how both handled the situation, even if tower was a little scrappy at first. They ultimately worked together.
Student was respectfully, strict on their SOP which there's nothing wrong with. On the same note, the SOP seemed a little rigid. A landing would have been easy with the tailwind, which is why tower seemed a little "okay that's dumb"
Either that is a very seasoned “student,” or the instructor was running comms. That was cleaner than some of my better days. Luckily the cirrus guy lightened the mood
I was solo. At the time, I had roughly 200 hours. Since then, I have gotten my CSEL and am working on CFI.
Cirrus guy was a dick.
KMLB is ridiculous. I got screamed at when I was a student pilot because I did a go around... He told me not to do it again because I "mess up" his sequence. I was absolutely flabbergasted.
You can actually request the towers number to report the controller for unsafe behavior. It throws the whole power dynamic that tower thinks they have into a shitstorm because now they don't know what to do.
Oh, this pilot is going to be a gem.
Yeah, its silly that the flight school wont allow that, but at the same time, its the school's aircraft, the pilot has to play by those rules.
I love this channel, I’ve lived in the Melbourne area since 2017, was not expecting to see a video on MLB, good on all parties involved, excellent communication and attitudes to handle things appropriately. I’ve seen other videos where this same kind of interaction results in massive fights.
There was no reason for the controller to be so rude to the student. I’m tired of controllers being so dismissive of GA pilots. They have as much right to the airspace as the air carrier.
Ironically, the biggest issue I've seen on the space coast for controllers is embry riddle students. They think they own the area and can do anything they want. When they get a PPD, they whine about it over the radio.
As a student pilot on a solo, I was once on freq with SLC approach. They cleared me into Bravo airspace on a transition route. I told them unable, per the FARs… again and again I told them. The controller tried to convince me that I was wrong for 5 minutes straight.
Very sad that a student pilot knows the rules of their own airspace better than a handful of controllers. And this is coming from a retired controller
What an interesting conversation!
I'm also at flight school in FL
we all try to keep away from this airport unless needed
everyone knows this tower is aggresive on the radio
I wish the people making these comments were farther towards the top. no one understands KMLB controllers are some of the worst in the state
I’m happy I am seeing this I fly to MLB many times and one of them in particular with the souther accent is very snarky and rude. Even when you follow their directions they still bark at you when they are in the wrong and never apologize. I heard they are understaffed so I understand how stressful it can get for them.
@@thugduck825 I don’t think it has anything to do with staffing, I got my ppl here in 2019 and the controllers were just as rude. They hate their jobs. Who wants to control an airspace full of brand new students, most being foreign, and the occasional airliner every 5 hours.
@@zq3yp true but if I was a controller it would be a great airport to gain experience kind of like how we go to the regionals to build that turbine time
Yeah the controller doesn't sound mad at all. At first he sounds shocked, then frustrated, but this never gets to the level of anger. That student has definite PIC energy, though, love it.
Forget SOP. Unable to accept 9R, if you have questions, please go read FAR 91.3 first.
Congrats to everybody for working stuff out. Good job.
MLB never changes. Student pilots have been taking crap from that tower ever since that tower was built. I've even gotten yelled at by them as an airline pilot lol.
Everything was great here.
Controller didn’t know it was against SOPs and when he was told he accommodated.
FYI, landing with “any” tailwind is challenging as you’re going faster than you expect the plane to be at that stage.
I’ve done my share and it’s always a bit weird… and I am commercial.
"Find another airport..." Very professional
There’s always the “accidental hot mic button“ time out you can give the controller for a minute or two.
FIT42 was completely professorial the whole time and 3CK did an AWESOME job getting the controller to really loosen back up. This is how it should be done when frustrations arise 🤘🏻
… and as a 141 student, I TOTALLY get why FIT42 had to stand firm. 😅
landed with tail wind on large runway (KBFI) as a student a lot. airport won’t allow landing in the other direction as sister airport dictates landing direction (KSEA).
It took me way too long to realise this is Melbourne, Florida and not Australia and was so irritated by the American tail number xD
Yes I was wondering too
Great coverage
Twr controller and Student Pilot interaction is a shining example of those that are controllers Vs those that are pilots.
This is great banter love it
That student will be a good and safe pilot. That is what matters.
I actually understand the tower's frustration here. That SOP is super conservative to the point of, in my opinion, being detrimental to the skill building of the student pilots they are training. I could understand a restriction to like 5 knots for a tailwind of any runway under 5,000' or something like that, but not allowing *any* tailwind until they get a Commercial is just asking for problems if they choose not to continue and not having the skills, much less the judgement to understand how to land with a tailwind. There are many airports, especially in hilly/mountain areas (which are a lot of the US despite popular belief) where you *have* to land with a tailwind. Not knowing how to do that from early in your flying career? Unacceptable.
This (IMHO) stupid rule/procedure is because the Flite School (FIT) wants to kick as much risk down the road as possible. It was written by committee and has no provision for runway length or actual risk decision making by the pilot. So the actual pilots are treated with "kid gloves" rules until at some point in the future they will need to deal with a real "adverse situation". Flite schools here in Phoenix have rules against taking the planes to Payson or (god forbid) Sedona due to the "challenge" involved. I hope these new fangled pilots don't fold up when actually flying the line and things don't go to "procedure".
Agree, with a 10k/ft runway not being able to accept a 4knot tailwind seems inappropriate. Defeats the spirit and meaning of why the rule exists.
I would guess it is imposed by their insurance company. The insurance company doesn't want to pay to fix planes that students crash by landing fast. A long runway doesn't matter if you veer off the runway.
@@thomasdalton1508 If it's insurance doing it, then they need to find a new insurance company because that's only guaranteeing future claims.
I can understand not wanting to let students fly off actual grass strips, especially in aircraft with wheel pants, until they get their PPL. I can't understand removing *basic* flying skills from training. How to handle a tailwind is just as important if not more important that learning how to land with a crosswind. It's unacceptable to remove that training from the basic syllabus.
@@CAPFlyer It's probably not the insurance company, but the school's willingness to pay the necessary insurance premiums. It is expensive to insure students to fly your planes, but that is a cost of doing business as a flying school. I'm guessing they are unwilling to accept that.
I fly at Epic Flight Academy and we try to avoid going to Melbourne when we can due to behavior like this. I remember one night we requested a Stop and Go, which we did and it was approved. We stopped for 3 seconds before taking off again and the controller gave us a hard time saying we didn't stop like we were supposed to
yea i flew with Melbourne Flight Training and heard issues on the radio daily from mediocre events that the controllers brought out of proportion.
I opened this thinking San Carlos was at it again
but yeah can we get a round of applause for these guys. Frustrating day/delay but got it resolved with no hard feelings.
1:40 , gotcha! Lol runway Change!
You only need to no one magic word if you think a controller is telling you to do something you dont/cant/wont do ..... "unable".
Who was mad? I didn't hear anyone who sounded mad, and I'm a Minnesotan. We're known for being oversensitive to people being "mad" at us.
It's not as though the ATC was making excuses. He made a statement about the reliability of their equipment when it comes to wind speed. The pilot acknowledged that it was a problem at this airport.
Why create conflict where there is none? There's enough conflict in the world.
FIT42 can be my wingman anytime. FIT42: "BS* you can be mine!"
Now that I'm hearing this, I'm glad I never went to Melbourne when I did my training at 'Red Tale' lol. But doing my flight training in New Smyrna Beach was awesome! Best time of my life :D Wish I could go back there.
Tower didn't seem "mad" just slightly frustrated, and was pretty good-natured in general
I instructed for FIT. This controller has always been this way. He's had several heated phone and radio conversations through the years
This would've been more acceptable if FIT wasn't *based out of* Melbourne. How the hell would any controller on shift not know about a major flight school's SOP on their own field? "You can go to another airport"??? Fuck right off with that one.
He did say they couldn't take a tailwind until they had their commercial, so how would the controller know what rating the pilot holds.
@@CaptainKevin He doesn't need to know the details. He needs to know that you don't tell a student pilot (callsign indicates this) who's trying to RTB that he can just go land at another airport instead.
"Hi, I'd like to come home now. Is that okay?"
- "Nope. I run this shit. Active runways are what they are."
@@Furious321 You asked how the controller wouldn't know what the flight school's SOP is, I answered that question. The pilot stated that they weren't allowed to take a tailwind unless they had a commercial, so I don't know how the controller would know that. I can't comment as to why he said what he said.
@@CaptainKevin Not "know the SOP"; "know *about* the SOP".
For example, LAHSO was not permitted where I trained. If the home airport controller cleared us for that, we'd reply "Negative LAHSO, student pilot". Naturally, he'd clear us for full length instead, or change runways to accommodate. I couldn't imagine the guy coming back with "You can't land on the 7500ft portion of the 10500ft runway?". He just has to know the policies exist, not why it was instated, or what the book actually states.
@@Furious321 To be fair the LAHSO thing is a bit different because universally it's pretty much an unwritten (but also technically written) rule that student pilots shouldn't accept LAHSOs.
Interesting school SOP, my school allows student pilots a 5 knot max tail wind, once you get a PPL that increases to a 10 knot tailwind.
99.9% of the time you have a headwind with a crosswind of some kind .. unless you are out at KCHN and then it's just a crapshoot as to what kind of variable wind you get.
MLB atc is always “fun” when it’s busy. Controller was probably in a fast paced mood.
The controller needs to be suspended. I’ve flown professionally for 24 years and short of a controller in the northeast I’ve never heard a singular request completely change the mood and attitude of a controller. And it went on for minutes. He needs a serious attitude adjustment. There is no place in our business for such a pouty, sarcastic and and confrontational exchange.
For context, it's Fleet Week out here on the Florida Coast. Air traffic is currently pretty active, especially along the coastal airports what with GA folks flying in for the festivities, tourists on commercial airliners, and the U.S. Navy (aircraft included) arriving en masse for their showcase. That pilot AND the ATC both handled themselves wonderfully considering the circumstances.
This is about 1.5hrs flying or 3hrs driving from fleet week and MLB isn't that busy. They only get 10 commercial flights a day with 2 international charters and that's only on Saturday. Every other day is less busy. This starts at 6am and ends at midnight so spread across 18hrs it isn't as busy to passenger traffic
That student is a GREAT pilot.
Student pilot to ATC: I have a number for you to call.
There’s something surreal about the pilots and atc all signing off like they’re hopping off discord at 1am…
As someone from Melbourne, Australia I have always wondered about the Melbourne USA that always comes up when you search flights
At the end they are all drinking coffee and wathing this video.
Good exchange from the student pilot. However, I think he could've been more clear by saying "I absolutely could handle a 4 knot tailwind landing, but legally I cannot until I'm commercial licensed"
It's not a legal requirement, but a procedural requirement for FIT
There are a lot of comments about how well the student handled this, and he did, but this ATC really needs to be talked to about this behavior, especially to students (and this guy was well prepared too!). This demonstrates a worrying disregard for following rules that were established for a reason, when we have had the accident rates we've had in aviation over the past few years.
I wonder what or how many accidents caused that rule.
If the winds were only 4 kts, the Tower could just call the winds variable at 4 while remaining on their active runway.
Kudos to the pilot who adhered to his school's rules, no matter how over the top conservative they are. Just 4 kts?
There are criteria for when the wind can be called variable. You can't just declare that it's variable under a certain wind speed.
Unreliable wind readings sounds like a potentially serious safety issue.
Sounds like a bunch of buddies having a nice little poker game going on! 😂
The ATC wasn't really mad. He may probably be annoyed, but he didn't blame the student pilot for that because his instructions were in violation of the student's company SOP. It's good that he still gave him different instructions, so the student won't get in trouble with his school or company. Asking the student if he can't take a 4-knot tailwind with a 10,000 runway and telling him "Well, I advise you go to another airport then..." in a mildly annoyed manner are completely unnecessary though.
The “winds calm” and “I’d love to help you but I had to change operations” was just a tad passive aggressive. The other pilot making fun of it is annoying as well.
That pilot can fly me and my fam any day of the week.
Nice unwavering commitment to SOPs even when being challenged. He’s gonna make a good airline pilot
The controller recovered but it’s one of those “ are you down there because I’m up here or am I up here because you’re down there?” “Don’t tell me how to fly the plane I’m not asking.”
I’ll ask the question no one else is. Why does the tower have the approach set up with a default tailwind.
His policy states that he should have runway set up for a primary headwind when practical
When doing my 10 night landings for my ppl at kafw wind was 18 @ 12 G18. They were landing heavies on 18 so they put me on the parallel. My very first downwind landing was at night. We did stop n goes to save time and get that box checked. 4th lap one of those gusts picked us up and carried us about 3,000’ down the runway. Still had plenty of room, but the controller instructed me to make a Rt 180 in the downwind and start using 36.
It was a good evening.
Good on the student... know you limits & stick to them. The Student handled this professionally, really excellent job! The tower controller, not having his best day, ultimately accomodated the student, however the tone, word choice & non-verbal cues inconsistent w/ best CRM practices. It is not easy working w/ student pilots, but we were all there at one point in our career!
The controller was a little harsh a first and the pilot handled it well. Glad to hear the controller ease up and be real cool. That is good training for a student pilot, because you have to be ready for every type of controller.
DOC has always been snarky, even when he was at Patrick AFB
Always waited for the day to see my school on a VAS aviation video! But fr, I'm glad everything worked out
What school is it?
@@Caderic Florida tech
@@ThatAvgeekKid Thank you!
AT LEAST he made it right. Good on that student to do what’s right!!!
Ah, my local airport. No updates to tech since Northrop barely uses the runways anymore and can't run it's tests as they used to giving reason to pay for upgrades, but the easiest place to rent a car out of for work related travel. Good for the airshows, though.
The terminal is about to get a $40mil upgrade to it at the end of June because the commercial traffic is increasing. So I wouldn't say it's running out of money.
Anyone notice JetBlue readback their turn incorrectly when exiting the runway? Curious if the tower just sent themthe wrong direction for their ramp? Surely JetBlue would know the direction they should go.
I’ve never heard a collective group of people get more riled up and pissy about having to do their jobs more than air traffic controllers.
2013-ish FAA changed the rules. Controllers may not assign a runway to an arrival within 10nm of the airport that is opposite direction to a current operation on that or a parallel runway. The interpretation evolved that ATC could only assign the runway once ATIS is changed and THEN allow the arrival to proceed closer than 10nm. But since tower only controls 4.2nm circle around the airport, "hold west..." is a gift because it allows the pilot to proceed closer than 10nm without outright assigning the pilot to enter downwind and then circle, which is not allowed. Not the controller's job to know who can and who can't accept a tailwind, either. Both sides of the mic handled this well. ATC stunned that someone can't take a 4kt tailwind on a 10,000 ft runway makes sense, too
Background: Why is the FAA acting like an Airbus callout at 20feet up during the landing flare? Because someone pointed a plane right in Air Force One's face opposite direction to A1's takeoff runway, but the coordination was incomplete and sloppy. Thus, one control mishap and the whole FAA changes to make all pilots and controllers suffer. FAA uses a wrecking ball to nail in a tack to hang a picture on the wall, and knocks down the building in the process.
A is Air Force in ATC flight data. Simple. A1 = Air Force One (previously). It's now AF1, because A for Air Force just isn't plain enough.