From the Face Palm Files...

[JumpWake]

Looks like this guy was transiting the EWR departure area and...well, just listen. Good job to the controller for keeping her cool with this guy.

Flight aware track here, his instruments are SPOT on.

 

[wildfreightess]

"people remark how accurate they are......" God, I hope no one was stupid enough to marry this guy.

 

[derg]

Oh... MY gosh.

Someone needs to stick to flying the pattern out in rural Pennsylvania.


Sent from my TRS-80

 

[derg]

"Ma'am? My GPS brings all the boys to the yard!"


Sent from my TRS-80

 

[Bernoulli Fan]

"Don't bother me any more!" LOL

 

[SteveCostello]

I like all the guys earlier in the conversation wishing the controller good luck. Sounds like she needed it.

 

[derg]

It also gave me flashbacks of when I was a CFI. I had a student that refused to learn basic pilotage and dead reckoning because he had a great GPS in his airplane and he could fly from RHV direct to anywhere in the world, fuel permitting.

Oh, Joy.

 

[jtrain609]

Heard a pair of foreign students out on a time building mission with their VFR GPS once. The controller asked them what their on course heading was and they gave him whatever heading the GPS was telling them. The controller asked them how they derived that heading, as they were filed /A.

Their response?

"Oh sir, we have, magic box!"

Controller didn't give them direct.

 

[Inverted]

OMG I wish there was the ability to reach through that video and slap the crap out of that weekend warrior.

 

[smack300]

Found this quite amusing..

 

[Itchy]

I have to think sometimes ATC folks wish there were a remote controlled bitch slapping machine built into transponders.

EDIT: I wonder if this is the flight?
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N1956S

I also wonder if he got a phone number before it was over......

 

[z987k]

N1956S Squawk VFR, frequency change approved.

 

[troopernflight]

Accent?? I would love to hear him try to fly in the lower islands.

 

[SteveCostello]

Why do I have the funny feeling that this guy would not have been quite as mouthy had that been a male ATC?

 

[rframe]

The controller should have told him he was a risk to aviation safety and forced him to land at the nearest airport and get an instructor to fly him home.

 

[rframe]

"you talk to fast and have an accent"...

What sort of accent is that? Femalian?

 

[N519AT]

I almost guarantee that he got a letter or a phone call or something. NY controllers really don't have time to chastise you on frequency, they'll just have their SUP do some investigative work and let the bureaucracy roll.

 

[N519AT]

Oh yeah, and:

 

[Champcar]

Freaking Putz. Was way off course too.

Kudos to the controller though for keeping her cool.

 

[TripSix]

Sometimes it's more fun to keep going rather than terminate them. The kind of quips you get when everyone gets to hear an IFR MO20 who "can't go direct to a VOR because I can't find it..." is kind of hilarious, for example...