Great to see this! I am the Tom training towards the end of the video, although certainly more clean shaven now! Not sure what I was thinking at the time, all the training left me no time to groom myself perhaps! As much as I hate hearing my own voice, it's funny to rewatch this. Happy to say as of next month I'll have been valid for 3 years as a tower controller.

From a commercial Pilot in the UK. I cannot believe more people haven't seen this. I cannot thank ATC enough for what you do, the most incredible people! Thank You....

Imagine just looking out of your plane window to see a typhoon flex its missiles

I will never cease to be so grateful and impressed by the skills of atc's. This was fantastic to watch, thank you.

6:27 You gotta love somebody wearing camouflage with a high-vis jacket on top!

As a recently passed PPL, I really get to appreciate you guys more than ever. I have spoken to London FIS on 126.5 and Farnborough Radar many times. I always get a little apprehensive when speaking to ATC but when I do, I speak at a steady pace with diction. Every call I make gets better.

44:44 That gentleman's voice is so soothing. If i'm the one on the other end, i'd surely feel i'm in safe hands. Bravo, sir 👏

That ex pilot nailed the dutch accent!!

If _one_ more thing starts pulling for my attention besides the single thing I'm currently working on I get stressed! Bravo to the men and women who do this day in and day out. Thank you!

Wow wow wow! AT'Controllers deserve so much more credit than what they receive! Such a hard job that they are doing n doing it so well! Just amazing so they are x

Nice work. It's nice to see what's the real main reason behind the delays and cancels. Now I got a better perspective, that it's not airline fault, but this delays and cancellation are designed for our safety. Too bad we didn't see how Tom's journey is when he finally sits in the control room and directing a real flight. But great work of cutting it to only the ATC part. We rarely think about your role, but seeing behind the scene, wow... it's a mind boggling. If pilots are in charged of the passenger's life on their own plane, these men and women are in charged with every passengers on every flight. Let that sinks. So thank you for doing such a great job of keeping us safe in the air.

Doing an incredible job everybody who's working there! Thanks from an airline pilot.

This documentary was interesting. Thank you for the time spent making this and uploading it as well.

Absolutely brilliant! I started watching this in the middle of a busy day and my scheduling is now all to pot. Wonderful viewing, thanks!

We have a light aircraft take off on an old air strip behind our village in Suffolk so it now makes more sense how he gets up in the air.

When the typhoon pulled up next to the rogue aeroplane. That was a sight to behold with the fighter jet hanging off your wing!!!

This is something to watch at 3 in the morning

Wonderful! Thank you ATC and forces. I am so proud of you. 👍🏻❤️🇬🇧

After watching this programme! I have even more respect for these controllers! To say it was impressive to see, is an understatement! The levels they go to, is just stunning! I just wish I could say a big thank you to all of them! Thank you so much for making flying safe today!

Awesome. Saying hello from a fellow air traffic controller in the US

I always have a deep appreciation on who watches the skies and gets the routes safe thank you! :D also I liked that segment in the button you can't just hit pause lol oh man imagine that it would just all go downhill xD

Nerves of steel total focus and dedication. Respect!

Very interesting. I love flying and learning about all the things that make it fun and safe travels in the sky. Thank You all aircraft controller's near and far!

I travel two or three times a year and have seen people treat others badly. The ATC and ground control at every airport in the world work hard in highly pressure positions. Launching and landing thousands of airplanes over a 24 hr period. Likewise the individuals controlling the airline gates for individual airlines have to handle passengers who often have no respect for what is being done. They shout at people because their flights are delayed or canx. Highly respect and thanks to those who get me to and from my destinations

thank you very much for an atc enthusiast it's just awesome to have access to such a video

BRILLIANT WORK to all those involved. cheers for showing us.

Wonderful documentary! Just gives one a sense of how massive the aviation industry is and the degree of separation of various activities/responsibilities involved. For example, here we see the subjects that occupy the minds of the guys at Air Traffic and Radar control towers - such as weather, number of aircraft for take-off and landing, etc - which are far different from say the pilots whose focus are on aircraft dynamics, passengers/cargo on board, fuel, holding time, cross-winds, altitude, etc. Compare that with the ground handling crew who are naturally oblivious to such factors, being busy with push-back, parking, cleaning the runways, baggage handling, etc. Then there is the landside operations dealing with passenger check-in, baggage screening and security. Very siloed, but thoroughly inter-woven bunch of activities. It's like thousands of large sections of diverse individual clusters coming together, co-ordinating with multifarious invisible departments running virtually non-stop operations, with very minimal errors. Fabulous! What an industry. That's extreme sophistication for you!

There was a story going around Bristol, that someone picked the least foggy area in the hills south of the city for the airport. Once the airport was complete, all that concrete and no trees made it the foggiest area around. . . .

God bless these women and men who do this job. Unbelievable resonsibility.

I can fully appreciate just how skilled the Air Traffic Controllers really are. I have my own system at home that receives ADS-B (Mode-S) aircraft signals and coverts the received data into a live radar screen on my laptop, showing flight number, aircraft registration number, aircraft type, Lat/Long, Airspeed, Altitude, Heading via an aerial on my roof, of which my house is the centre point on my screen . I have a range receiving of about 50 miles around me, so can truly appreciate just how busy it gets, to include Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds airports as I watch aircraft arriving over my house into Manchester, going North via Pole Hill, coming in from the Atlantic over Wallasey or coming down from or going up to Scotland. Mine is a ground station system that can feed data to public websites such as Flightradar 24, etc. for everyone else to see.

Oh man, that Typhoon pilot was ready!!!!!

Great production! Very informative and interesting

"We are controll freaks." I mean... your job is literally...

What a job! Thank you for your hard work, and thank you for this video it was very insightful ✈️😊

Literally this is the perfect video, well done compiling this 👌😀

I sometimes fly from North Weald, a couple of miles south of Stansted and I get constant warnings about infringing from the instructor while doing circuits, it's important to realise pilots take it really seriously too

Air traffic controllers deserve every penny tough job well done guys

1:03 lol damn that side print though

Thank you for this!

Finally started live training as a student controller and loving it

So bright in that control room...

Well done guys for keeping airspace safe

Thank you very much for putting this together

ATC are often overlooked, but that's a tough job. So much attention to detail. Sad that those guys didn't pass.

Love Learning. Thanks for sharing, shared.

incredible how much personnel there actually is to control the airspace of a single country.

Great! Loved it! Thanks very much!

Coningsby is one of my local RAF bases. Went there to watch the final flight of the Tornados

Great documentary keeping me entertained during this pandemic

Fascinating. Thanks.

Sir ,Thank you for your service , Sir .

41:54 i am proud of mt=y country Jamaica, and even in her absence she is still talked about and is still the epitome aviation sparks and passion for pilots and atc everywhere. i miss her #AIRJAMAICA

That is the brightest radar room I’ve ever seen! Bright light....Bright light!!

This is very interesting and informative

Probably one of the toughest job in the world with extremely high stakes.

I remember been on Empire State Building nyc at night see ing aircraft lights going in to jfk airport

Beautiful video.

Very nice....Thank you...

That QRA exercise sent a shive right up my spine especially the bit where the pilot was like "I am instructed by her majesty's government if you do not respond you will be shot down"

Drinking game: Take a shot every time they restrict landing rates

Is there more of this? I loved seeing the work in action and the rigorous training to be an air traffic controller. I went while in the Navy but it just reminds me of how truly difficult it is

The guy in the pink shirt with the semi shaved head is the one I’d want to be directing my STN-ALC flight 💪🇬🇧👍

The rogue airplane is probably actor Harrison Ford. He has been known to land at airports, even on taxi runways. Even crashing his plane.

UK: waits for infringing aircraft to leave USA: Send the fighters

I would love too visit a tower and see in real life what goes on and just watch the guys in action

Nice Show!

And also big thank you to those who protect us

Thanks to these heroes not highlighted oftenly!

Fun fact: NATS Swanwick is london center in Microsoft flight simulator

Ice Men every last one of them !!! Dont begrudge them a penny of their salaries with so much responsibility - not just in the air but on the ground !!! Bravo !!!!

Very demanding job this. Well done all ATC.

27:34 nailed the dutch accent :)

Guys search you tube for. The flight. Its 3 parts following one passenger jet from canada to germany. Really worth a watch

Contrast British ATC speaking precision with "Kennedy Steve", a ground controller from JFK. Both get the job done using completely different styles.

i absolutely loved tha thanks for sharing

I love this career

Thanks for this

Brings to mind episodes of Breaking Bad and the stress this profession have to undergo, much respect to them.

Good job

Very interesting, thanks for the edit.

12:20 not going to lie - that's the most badass thing ever! It's like Doughboy from Boyz N The Hood lifting his shirt to reveal he has a gun tucked in his waist "we got a problem here?".

So interesting

i cant wait to be able to apply for NATS training, im 18 now and ive been wanting to do ATC since i was like 6 and im sooo close now but covid screwed it up

46:03 can we just take a moment to apreciate the sense of humour atc have particuarly the PANIC button stuck to the side of the desk

Ohhhh this was worth it for that dude doing accents

Cheers for putting that together buddy. Is it worth (me) sniffing out the rest, for some resolution re the trainees? All in all that said, a pretty realistic take on the do or die (No pun :p ), ATC learning curve. Thanks.

Sucks for the other two guys who didn’t make it through.

I helped build Swanick control center. Great project.

Maybe the infringer was Matt Guthmiller.

I love British television.

Great dedication. Those that thumbed down could stop flying and save them the hassle...clearly these hard workers are pointless to them.

National Geographic, 9/11 Control the skies about Gander atc on that momentous day is a magnificent watch. An extraordinary story told perfectly.

So David Brent is in charge of air traffic control in England.

First day at nats must be a dramatic experience.

What is the function of Panic button seen on Bristol ATC desk for?

I often go into Charlotte Mecklenburg ITN Airport and hear loud announcements over head that says "There is no ground sound volume on runways"...What does this mean? My family is a military family so we seem to see many off and few home.

I love the Bohemian Rhapsody reference @ 32:05 😂

35:44 - Sainsburys... translation: Albertsons, Vons, Safeway, Pavilions...

I really want to fly for easyJet when I’m older

40:40 Flight simulator Steam edition more realistic than I thought XD