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Of all the controller attitude I've heard in ATL, that one sounded so mellow he could've been asleep.
 
Was that time compressed or edited with something cut out. If not that guy went from normal to pissed off pretty fast.
 
That's ok Bill, we don't like your attitude either!:):)
 
Hear stuff like this a lot in ATL. Delta folks don't like to be corrected. Apparently they are infallible and it's always somebody else's error.
 
1. Hope he realized how inappropriate he was and called the tower to apologize when he got to his destination.

2. The poor FO who had to sit there and witness that.
 
Stifler's Mom said:
2. The poor FO who had to sit there and witness that.
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That happens everyday. I've witnessed it first hand.

Descending out of cruise altitude and the FO was talking to me on the JS. Nice dude, nice conversation. CA tells the FO that 'as I previously briefed, I'd like NO talking in the descent'. Now granted we were out of FL350. The FO snapped around like a beat dog and said 'yes sir'.

Meanwhile, the CA went back to reading is Wall Street Journal on his Ipad. I was blown away. That's one of many that I've seen. Hopefully it's not like that very much. Could you imagine flying with CA America on a four day?

And I'll step up and say I've seen some hypocrisy at SW, but not to this level. Not even close.
 
redflyer65 said:
Descending out of cruise altitude and the FO was talking to me on the JS. Nice dude, nice conversation. CA tells the FO that 'as I previously briefed, I'd like NO talking in the descent'. Now granted we were out of FL350. The FO snapped around like a beat dog and said 'yes sir'.

Meanwhile, the CA went back to reading is Wall Street Journal on his Ipad.
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I hope the FO was on probation.
 
redflyer65 said:
That happens everyday. I've witnessed it first hand.

Descending out of cruise altitude and the FO was talking to me on the JS. Nice dude, nice conversation. CA tells the FO that 'as I previously briefed, I'd like NO talking in the descent'. Now granted we were out of FL350. The FO snapped around like a beat dog and said 'yes sir'.

Meanwhile, the CA went back to reading is Wall Street Journal on his Ipad. I was blown away. That's one of many that I've seen. Hopefully it's not like that very much. Could you imagine flying with CA America on a four day?

And I'll step up and say I've seen some hypocrisy at SW, but not to this level. Not even close.
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Jumpseating an old NWA crew vs the Delta crew is diametric in it's differences. It's a mixed bag though and there's no way to accurately testify to which crew is "better" just by jumpseating 8x or more times a month.

To SWA credit they've always been welcoming and very open to questions and jokes.
 
I'd could give you two horrible NW stories too, but mostly the experience was good.

I'll never forget a certain toolbag NW guy(after the merger...so now DL) that gave me nothing but crap for working at SW (for a good 4hrs). Asked how much I made, poked fun of taxing fast, etc. Anything you could imagine that was anti-SW. I'm not even sure why he let me in the cockpit to be honest with you.

Same flight a week later and the CA is a junior DL Captain. Had a great time with him. He was such a cool dude I gave him a ride home when we got there. Same flight, one week apart and the opposite end of the spectrum. I wouldn't have pissed on the first guy if he was on fire.
 
Stifler's Mom said:
1. Hope he realized how inappropriate he was and called the tower to apologize when he got to his destination.

2. The poor FO who had to sit there and witness that.
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How do you know that wasn't the FO?

Sit in that right seat long enough, you don't come close to asking permission to say what you want:)
Just sayin- I know my people;)
 
waveflyer said:
How do you know that wasn't the FO?

Sit in that right seat long enough, you don't come close to asking permission to say what you want:)
Just sayin- I know my people;)
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The first voice about three min prior to that rant was probably the FO calling from the ramp ready to taxi.


Bye Bye---General Lee
 
asayankee said:
Hear stuff like this a lot in ATL. Delta folks don't like to be corrected. Apparently they are infallible and it's always somebody else's error.
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You hear this stuff a lot in ATL? Dramatic much? This CA is being absolutely excoriated by his DL peers. This kind of behavior is not normal and not tolerated.
 
Two of the most obnoxious, unprofessional, pretentious outburst I have heard in my 28 years of flying were both DAL.
On another note, one of the best jumpseat rides I ever had was a DAL flight in the 90s when they first opened up the cockpit to outsiders.
 
Well, excoriated by delta, while everyone else is just getting a good chuckle:)

That's not the worst exchange I've ever heard- but It is making it's rounds :)
Facebook infamous when my non flying cousin forwards it to me:):)

World we live in- it is nothing if not well documented, FWIW to keep our good graces :)

I find it funny that delta peeps aren't just laughing with the guy- no harm no foul, my bet is that crew had an early morning- and that's it- the controller was chuckling too and WE HAVE ALL BEEN THERE with this gig
But c'mon deltoids- while you're excoriating, ever come to think that the root problem is the stick up your arse??
 
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waveflyer said:
Well, excoriated by delta, while everyone else is just getting a good chuckle:)

That's not the worst exchange I've ever heard- but It is making it's rounds :)
Facebook infamous when my non flying cousin forwards it to me:):)

World we live in- it is nothing if not well documented, FWIW to keep our good graces :)

I find it funny that delta peeps aren't just laughing with the guy- no harm no foul, my bet is that crew had an early morning- and that's it- the controller was chuckling too and WE HAVE ALL BEEN THERE with this gig
But c'mon deltoids- while you're excoriating, ever come to think that the root problem is the stick up your arse??
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Uhhhhhh, if you had listened to more than just 15 seconds of the tape, the overwhelming number of DL pilots at the same time of this guy's rant acted professional, with good attitudes and treated ATC well. I think we all can come up with examples of pilots behaving poorly at each airline, including Corndogs.

How about you Cornies slow down that taxi speed? You all do it, riiiight?


Bye Bye---General Lee
 
Some thoughts….

1. his poor wife and/or lucky ex-wife. Imagine what that home life is like.

2. The ATC controller only laughed after someone else told "Captain Happy" to calm down

3. The FAA should really do a psych eval. I'm no doctor, but there is something wrong upstairs. I don't want my family riding on a flight commanded by him.
 
The DAL dude was totally wrong however that is the rudest, most obnoxious controller in the entire ATL system so I sympathize with Him but you gotta keep your attitude in the cockpit
 
That guy deserves the Duke treatment with a couple of strong pimp hands.

Say what you want, but that isnt what we have in our cockpits.
 
Sounded to me like there was some "history" between the players involved.

Perhaps the captain had previously been the victim of ATL ground control's (maybe even this particular controller's) habit of setting and then springing little petty taxi clearance traps.

Sounded like the captain knew ahead of time what the ground controller was going to say before he said it. This was probably just a bit of payback for prior evil behavior on ATL ground's part.

My guess is that the captain was "feeding back" some of ATL ground's own words and phrases.
 
LearLove said:
Was that time compressed or edited with something cut out. If not that guy went from normal to pissed off pretty fast.
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Nope. That's the full interaction. I guess Delta dipstick was angry because he didn't explain how he should get to Mike... and a little racist.
 
CA tells the FO that 'as I previously briefed, I'd like NO talking in the descent'. Now granted we were out of FL350. The FO snapped around like a beat dog and said 'yes sir'.

Meanwhile, the CA went back to reading is Wall Street Journal on his Ipad.
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Hopefully he got out his phone an took a picture. Then continued to talk to you. Show CA dumbass the pic and ask if he wants to talk to the chief pilots about it.
 

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