PILOTS REPRIMANDED + HEATED ARGUMENT at Phoenix International

- And with that attitude you ended up receiving the number to call? - Sure, I did.

"Are you ok?" 🤣

The pilot being angry at Approach but taking it out on Tower is where I draw the line.

Leaving out your callsign is one thing - I let that slide as a controller all the time…but not reading back a runway assignment for a VISUAL approach clearance into an airport with multiple runways is not cool. That’s how people get killed. Plain and simple. Dude needs to swallow his pride instead of getting all heated and further compromising CRM!

“I think I know why you’re frustrated” 😂😂😂

Definitely on the ATC's side here. Those weren't nitpick corrections there. It was runway assignment. Kinda important that the readback is correct and for the right aircraft

I only wish when he said "I'm not gonna waste my time" that approach had said, "what callsign is not going to waste their time?"

2:08 "I'm not gonna waste my time" he says WITHOUT his callsign 💀

“You seem nice and kind” The tower needed that. I feel him. Like hell, the American had beef with approach, why take it out on the Tower. Poor fella.

The worst part is that the pilot doesn’t seem to understand just how important readbacks are. He seems to treat them as an annoying nuisance getting in his way all the time. That is pretty concerning.

“Talk about the tapes” not taste. I was behind AA 1479. This is exactly how it happened. ATC was in a perfectly fine mood that night. Sometimes they can be the instigators, but they weren’t that night. Right away I noticed his “with you” call. That call is supposed to contain an altitude. The controller was absolutely right. PHX has three runways. We land on all of them concurrently. He absolutely needed to read back the runway assignment for his approach clearance. As he melted down I had trouble transmitting behind him I was laughing so hard. That poor FO, he knew ,but had to stay in his lane while captain meltdown did his thing.

omg the "ARE YOU OKAY?" had me dying of laughter.

There are a lot of big metal objects holding hundreds of people flying through the air at high speed. There's a reason why standardized and uniform language was invented for this. No room for a hot head at the controls. Kudos to ATC for putting him in his place.

Lazy Captain. If you're flying for a major US carrier, you should already know how to communicate properly with ATC. There are multiple runways there. Required readbacks are one way to trap errors. You could tell the F/O was embarrassed while speaking to the ground controller after landing.

I hope the pilot that stepped in for a few times while the idiot cooled down doesn't get in trouble. The other guy is just an ass.

I feel sorry for that FO having to fly with that dude.

Not reading back the runway you were assigned is hardly acceptable at my local airport with one runway, but at an airport with 3 almost parallel runways it is beyond unacceptable

How does a major airline pilot not know the basics of radio communication? It’s a brave new world out there.

Honestly surprised the other pilot in the cockpit didn't sort the first one out. You can hear the difference in who was talking... one was clearly in a bad mood.

Oof, this is making me crawl out of my skin as a pilot. Sorry to all the controllers on behalf of this guy! and i'm about to fly into this airport... the other pilot sitting next to this guy needs a hug.