Air Traffic Control and mothers in law

A funny air traffic control conversation between a Departure controller and a Virgin crew. The MERIT THREE departure from runway 4R or 4L calls for pilots to make a right turn to 100 degrees heading shortly after takeoff, and climb to 5000 feet. The tower controller often instructs pilots to wait for him to call the right turn: that's what happened here, but the Tower air traffic controller forgot to call the turn before clearing the Virgin crew to switch to the departure frequency. Recorded on liveatc.net

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• ATC
• air
• traffic
• control
• virgin
• atlantic
• JFK
• kenadamsusa
• new
• york
• tower

[CONNO123A]

that tower is at stansted and virgin don't fly from stansted

[kenadamsusa]

@CONNO123A

It's not Stansted Tower, it's New York Departure.

[cheesemaster1000]

I swear to god this same controller was talking about mothers yesterday on JFK ground, I recognise his voice. I'll video responce the recording for you to hear hang on.

[kenadamsusa]

@cheesemaster1000

It's not the same controller. The one in my recording worked New York approach and has since retired. The controller in your recording is a current controller at JFK. Loved your video, though. Reminds me of another controller once overheard at LGA advising a pilot in one of those very congested days: "You're number whatever for takeoff!".

[chrigiammann]

haha awesome! I didn't quite understand what the pilot said after the atc told him to do the turn a little bit earlier. Can anyone help me?

[kenadamsusa]

@chrigiammann

Virgin 10 says: Roger, Virgin 10, it must have been the bloke in the tower because he said he would call the turn and he never did. [this, by the way, is true: I had the tower recording, too]

[unique1028]

pilot humor is often quite funny and sometimes a little warped.. lol i know I am one.. X-D

[atchd]

It's the little moments in atc that remind us we're human every once in a while.

[raitoyagami1992]

@kenadamsusa they might not be talking to / flying from stansted, but i can confirm that that tower is in fact EGSS Tower

[controlledburst]

I don't think the ATC was kidding about his mother-in-law...

[jeffmunro]

This is normal atc

[Exagerative]

Is this real? Or vatsim/Ivao

[CaptainFelixTan1]

Its VIRGIN atlantic-they dont have any in laws cos their Virgins

-just a joke

[XxRoyal19xX]

the ATC sounds like robert barone from everybody loves raymond

[reverserbank]

one-one-eight thousands *0*

[muntoniG60]

@kenadamsusa he was talking about the picture you used.

[rahulras]

haha :)

[ioilmio]

It would be cool if the pilot had answered: Virgin 10, on hanGover, passing 2400 feet....smoking a merit