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Title: Will You Marry me?
Post by: bcrosby on April 08, 2006, 07:38:01 PM: Here's a clip of a controller at YVR proposing to his girlfriend that is a passenger on a plane.

Apparantly he got a talking to by Navcanada after the event..
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Post by: Biff on April 08, 2006, 08:14:41 PM: Does that pilot sound like Sgt. Oddball from Kelly's Heroes or what? :lol:
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Post by: Pygmie on April 08, 2006, 08:24:14 PM: Don't think he got in too much trouble, there was an article in the company newsletter congratulating them on their engagement (his wife-to-be is also an employee of Nav Canada), along with a description of how he proposed.
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Post by: JC_UND_ATC on April 08, 2006, 10:23:46 PM: Great clip! Very nicely done by the controller! I'm going to have to save this one and use it as future reference :D
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Post by: davolijj on April 09, 2006, 08:46:07 AM: Nice clip...what a cool pilot.
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Post by: Acey on April 09, 2006, 03:02:01 PM: Great clip, thanks a lot.
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Post by: n57flyguy on April 09, 2006, 04:25:25 PM: Quote from: davolijj
Nice clip...what a cool pilot.

definitly! that was a nice clip.
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Post by: Cessna172 on April 09, 2006, 05:08:19 PM: bcrosby,

Hey, thanks!! :D Very nice clip...

Cessna172
Home Airport: West Houston Airport (KIWS)
www.westhoustonairport.com
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Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on April 09, 2006, 05:18:36 PM: Awww that was like right out of a movie or something, congrats to those two!
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Post by: Tomato on April 09, 2006, 06:35:01 PM: That is AWESOME... :D

Just curious - where did you get this feed from as I'm pretty sure there is CYVR feed on here!! :)
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Post by: bvanbrunt on April 09, 2006, 06:51:37 PM: well someone sounded alittle nervous lol
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Post by: cka411 on April 09, 2006, 08:51:10 PM: just a little nervous

But what a memorable way to do it

Wonderful clip
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Post by: Hobbyist on April 09, 2006, 11:52:26 PM: I wish that I could make that kind of proposal like this one. Interesting, but I like it. :)
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Post by: Fra on April 10, 2006, 05:13:44 AM: He wasn't nervous to guide the airplanes 5 days a week and have the lives of thousands in his hands but he was nervous to ask her to marry him. :lol: Typical Air traffic controller. :P
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Post by: bcrosby on April 10, 2006, 11:18:21 AM: Quote from: Tomato
That is AWESOME... :D

Just curious - where did you get this feed from as I'm pretty sure there is CYVR feed on here!! :)

I found it from another blog called "Cockpit Conversation (http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2006/04/marriage-proposal.html)". I dont know where she got the clip from.
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Post by: KSYR-pjr on April 10, 2006, 01:30:09 PM: Very, very enjoyable clip! You could just imagine the volume on the aircraft after that.
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Post by: kkjlai on April 13, 2006, 09:10:42 PM: Just like the ending of the movie "Pushing Tin".. where the approach controller (casted by John Cusack) say sorry to his wife.. :D

But I find this clip even better!
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Post by: Fra on April 13, 2006, 10:33:59 PM: Wow, I need to get that movie. What really pushing tin means? Pushing cans, or what? (since english is not my first language) Please, anyone?
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Post by: digger on April 13, 2006, 10:50:51 PM: "Pushing tin" is a slang term for controlling air traffic, especially in a busy environment. While technically not made of tin, airliners bear enough of a resemblance to tin cans that the reference is easily enough understood.
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Post by: Fra on April 13, 2006, 11:14:39 PM: Thanks, so I wasn't far at all for the meaning. I'm gonna get that movie.

Any other movie that you know that is with ATC story?
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Post by: kkjlai on April 15, 2006, 11:19:10 AM: Fra,

There is also a movie called "Ground Control", in 1998..
IMDB.COM quote:

"A disgraced former air traffic controller is called back into service when the airport's traffic control system malfunctions."

ATC fans may probably be interested or like it.. most other people may find it boring though :?

kkjlai
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Post by: KSYR-pjr on April 15, 2006, 11:40:43 AM: Quote from: kkjlai
There is also a movie called "Ground Control", in 1998..

Don't forget "Summer Rental" with John Candy. He was an overworked tower controller in need of a vacation:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090098/

:)
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Post by: Jason on April 15, 2006, 12:42:22 PM: Quote from: KSYR-pjr
Quote from: kkjlai
There is also a movie called "Ground Control", in 1998..

Don't forget "Summer Rental" with John Candy. He was an overworked tower controller in need of a vacation:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090098/

:)

http://jahozafat.com/cgi-bin/mp3s.cgi?Summer_Rental=Ihateflies.mp3

Hehehe...

Jason
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Post by: w0x0f on April 15, 2006, 01:01:36 PM: Modern Problems

Chevy Chase

BTW IMHO Pushing Tin was really bad. The best thing about that movie was when they showed Cusack visualizing the traffic in 3 dimensions. That is how a controller interprets the 2 dimensional display in his mind. Oh yeah, and that one scene with Angelina Jolie... :lol: After that you can hit the eject button.
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Post by: digger on April 15, 2006, 02:52:25 PM: You had to love the ATC sequences in "Airplane" too...

:lol:
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Post by: jinksto on April 15, 2006, 04:25:57 PM: What I didn't get in this clip was where the plane was. Obviously on the ground but did this all occur on the taxi to the gate or did he stop the plane somewhere?
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Post by: kkjlai on April 16, 2006, 12:20:58 PM: Also for "Pushing Tin", you have to watch the scene(s) where the two ATC went to taste the Wake Turbulance on the runway under a 747.. that part is too funny (also seems fake).. :lol:
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Post by: Cessna172 on April 16, 2006, 02:22:50 PM: Quote from: digger
You had to love the ATC sequences in "Airplane" too...

:lol:

And that's when my drinking problem started... :D

or

Ted: Surely you can't be serious.
Doctor (I forgot his name): I am serious. And stop calling me Surely.

Cessna172
Home Airport (KIWS)
www.westhoustonairport.com
Lay em down and yak em shmack em. Ko got to be ya know. Sheeeit. :D
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Post by: Chaos81 on April 16, 2006, 03:31:03 PM: Dr. Rumack. ;)
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Post by: PaulRichardson82 on April 16, 2006, 08:51:08 PM: There was a TV movie called blackout and it starred Eric Stoltz. The movie is about a mid-air collision. Everyone blames the controller, but faulty radar equipment is the real cause.
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Post by: davolijj on April 16, 2006, 09:49:51 PM: Quote from: PaulRichardson82
There was a TV movie called blackout and it starred Eric Stoltz. The movie is about a mid-air collision. Everyone blames the controller, but faulty radar equipment is the real cause.

Sounds like a movie NATCA would endorse. :lol:
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Post by: Cessna172 on April 17, 2006, 01:55:20 PM: Quote from: Chaos81
Dr. Rumack. ;)

Oh yeah....Thanks!! :D

Cessna172
Home Airport: West Houston Airport (KIWS)
www.westhoustonairport.com
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Post by: Cessna172 on April 17, 2006, 01:56:27 PM: Quote from: Chaos81
Dr. Rumack. ;)

Oh yeah....Thanks!! :D

Cessna172
Home Airport: West Houston Airport (KIWS)
www.westhoustonairport.com
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Post by: Fra on April 17, 2006, 02:44:58 PM: I just watched Pushing tin and I liked it! As a person who is determined to become an atc, this movie is the right thing for a beginner to understand few rules and few things about atc.

either you make it, or you dont
no messin around with another controllers' private life
things are either black, or white, no such thing as between.

All in all, great movie for a atc fan like me. Can wait to get Ground control.

Any other you might suggest?
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Post by: davys747 on April 19, 2006, 02:43:47 AM: Ground Control is the most horrible ATC movie I have seen.

If you know anything about ATC you'll cringe at just about every piece of "phraseology" and every situation. They put in all of those ATC jokes you see on the internet that are actually funny when you read them and not funny in the movie. What is interesting is that they shots of the scopes are real DSR shots by the phraselogy that goes with the shots are completely wrong. I don't even know what facillty they are supposed to be at. Its apparently PHX but they seem to be working ABQ CTR and PHX APP and they are at PHX airport. All of the airport shots are of LAX or ONT :D

I could go on. Really really bad.
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Post by: michaelt747 on April 19, 2006, 04:21:41 AM: dude, ground control was by far the best movie ever!!! i mean, with the whole..."oh, the key word to controlling is "expedite", and then the girl is like, "oh, well then, expedite...huh...wow...this is great!!! yay!!! everything is going to be great!!! yay!!" (being a bit sarcastic)

then of course there is that controller who talks really fast and says "break" in between each call...not waiting for a response--im pretty sure thats in violation of 7110.65 (correct me if im wrong though)

the best part...and this seems to be true about most movies, is how directors can never seem to use the same airplane. first its a 747, then its suddenly something like a 727, then when it lands its obviously a 737 (if i remember correctly). In the movie Red Eye, it was the same thing!!! it switches between a 767, and A320 and i think a 737--(the interior was a 767 i think--definately not a 737/A320 (it was twin isle))

just my two cents...

peace, Bauer
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Post by: hopskip on April 19, 2006, 05:28:48 AM: Red eye was one of the worst... It was a 767-A330-A320-737200!!- and one nose-shot it's even a 727!

in the 'landing sequence' of that movie, a 767 is on final approach, an A320 touches down and then a 737-300 vacates the runway. all within 20 seconds
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Post by: mattkbdl on April 19, 2006, 11:19:19 AM: Thats the first thing I noticed in Red Eye. I was paying more attention to the planes than the plot. sad isn't it?
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Post by: Fra on April 19, 2006, 12:16:11 PM: Some more ATC movies guys?
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Post by: KSYR-pjr on April 19, 2006, 05:45:03 PM: Quote from: Fra
Some more ATC movies guys?

Not a complete ATC movie, but a pretty realistic ATC scene (IMO) found in the second scene of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Quote
[AirEast Pilot]: OK Center. AirEast 31. The traffic has turned. He's
heading right for my windshield. We're turning right...

(A CONFLICT ALERT sounds)

[Air Traffic Controller]: AirEast 31, descend and maintain flight level
three-one-zero. Break, Allegheny triple four. Turn right thirty degrees
immediately...

[AirEast Pilot}: AirEast 31, Roger. The traffic is quite luminous and is
exhibiting some non-ballistic motion. Over.

[Air Traffic Controller]: Roger, AirEast 31. Continue to descend at your
discretion, over.

[AirEast Pilot]: OK, Center. Center pilot's discretion is approved. The
traffic is approaching head-on...and really moving. Went by us, right now.
That was really close.

[Supervisor]: Ask them if they want to report officially.

[Air Traffic Controller]: TWA 517, do you want to report a UFO? Over.
(No response) TWA 517, do you want to report a UFO? Over.

[TWA Pilot]: Negative. We don't want to report.

[Air Traffic Controller]: AirEast 31, do you wish to report a UFO? Over.

[AirEast Pilot]: Negative. We don't want to report one of those either.

[Air Traffic Controller]: AirEast 31, do you wish to file a report of any
kind to us?

[AirEast Pilot]: I wouldn't know what kind of report to file, Center.

[Air Traffic Controller]: AirEast 31, me neither. I'll try to track traffic
and destination, over.
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Post by: Tomato on April 22, 2006, 12:15:15 AM: WOW, have we ever gone off-topic! Anyways, back ON TOPIC...

I contacted the person who ran the blog, and it didn't sound like he knew much more about the clip either. It may have been recorded by the controller himself. I searched all around online but found no news stories or anything about this. :)
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Post by: digger on April 22, 2006, 01:27:57 AM: Quote
It may have been recorded by the controller himself.

Given the sound quality of the controller's voice vs. the pilot's voices, it sounds as though it was recorded at the controller's location. His voice doesen't sound as if it's a radio transmission, but recorded directly from a microphone. Maybe it's from the tower's actual log tape?

Back when someone could still meet de-planing passengers at the gate, my brother in law did something similar. He got a couple dozen of his fellow passengers to each hand one red rose to my sister as they got off the plane. He waited until everyone else was off the plane, and then walked off and got down on one knee, in front my sister, and everyone else from the plane, and as she stood there, in front of a bunch of onlookers, with a couple dozen roses in her arms, he proposed...
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Post by: Tomato on July 03, 2006, 09:27:49 PM: Wow, when was that? I know some smaller airports have very little security, and though you can't do this, you get close enough with 1 wall of glass seperating you from the aprob. :)
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Post by: Cap747 on May 11, 2010, 04:27:28 PM: Nowadays pilots and controllers must be born married! We never hear such thing anymore...

:? :? :? :? :? :?
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Post by: picci on May 11, 2010, 05:44:22 PM: that was great! the pilot cooperation was great as well :P
btw the ATC guy's voice was shaking in the beginning but he got it straight by the time he got put on the mic. great stuff, and good job to the atc guy :) :P
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Post by: davalos08 on May 12, 2010, 01:37:56 AM: lol you can tell how the guy's voice starts breaking when the pilot say he is on speakers, lol I would have been nervous too! Nice pilot, nice cooperation.
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Post by: VampyreGTX on May 12, 2010, 02:38:20 PM: Talk about an blast from the past (4 year old post) but thanks for resurrecting it. Very nice to hear this, especially after the rather crazy discussion in the ATC/AA incident at JFK..... :P
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Post by: Cap747 on May 12, 2010, 04:05:09 PM: Quote from: VampyreGTX on May 12, 2010, 02:38:20 PM
Talk about an blast from the past (4 year old post) but thanks for resurrecting it. Very nice to hear this, especially after the rather crazy discussion in the ATC/AA incident at JFK..... :P

yeah! But I put a complaint on one page back.....

[Edit] and below.... :cry:
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Post by: aviator_06 on May 16, 2010, 08:39:55 PM: Lol That was an awesome way to propose!
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Post by: englishpilot on May 18, 2010, 10:41:50 AM: Thanks for posting - I proposed the other day, a nerve racking experience but he held his composure and did great!
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Post by: Cap747 on May 18, 2010, 10:50:21 AM: Quote from: Cap747 on May 11, 2010, 04:27:28 PM
Nowadays pilots and controllers must be born married! We never hear such thing anymore...

:? :? :? :? :? :?

Allthough I really like this story, I brought it back up (from 2006) with the quoted complaint... There should be more like this.... maybe we should assign somebody te get married this way... Or perhaps a inflight wedding?
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Post by: squeegeeboy on May 18, 2010, 10:40:13 PM: Quote from: englishpilot on May 18, 2010, 10:41:50 AM
Thanks for posting - I proposed the other day, a nerve racking experience but he held his composure and did great!

Congrats!