Incident shared to me via Instagram. Thanks for the report.

"He's getting violated" can be interpreted in many different ways, especially given how annoyed the tower sounds lol

The tower said "cleared touch and go" 3 times when he first arrived. ...that obviously means cleared for three laps, duh!

A single approval for a touch and go is good for an entire day. Nice to know. Lol!

“When you get that plane on the ground you call the tower immediately!” *Stops on runway to make a phone call*

“He’s getting violated” is the most ominous yet fun thing I’ve heard all day.

Oh, to hear that phone call...

I'm certain ATC wanted to talk to him to give congratulations for the well executed touch and gos.

This is the proper level of irritated ATC. Worked the problem, tried the options available, and even when complaining was professional and brief. Good on 5DS for proactively mentioning having cell phone contact information. There are a number of major issues here, including radio operation, the light communication, and clearance for multiple touch and gos (Touches and go?); everything else aside, it's a good teachable moment for everyone else.

I am a student pilot at KSPG and it’s a fantastic little airport. I don’t know the controllers name, but I do recognize his voice. I’ve talked to him multiple times on frequency and he’s a really chill guy. I’ve even sparked up a couple of mini conversations while flying.

Hard to explain this kind of behavior. Clearly the guy knew to call inbound and got his initial clearance for touch and go. But how does he just keep landing after that without hearing anything? Would like to know how he tried to justify this.

Had a similar occurrance unfold years ago in Roanoke, Virginia one calm and beautiful Spring night. A student pilot from Mountain Empire Airport wandered into the pattern for runway 23 from the west and commenced several touch-and-goes without saying a word to the Approach Controller, tower or anybody. We came in to land flying a Metroliner, and after all our passengers deplaned the two of us and our ground crew stood out there on the ramp making bets as to how many more times he'd land and takeoff. We still had the tower and ground control frequencies up in our numbers one and two comms. with the cabin speaker on, and when the guy finally landed full-stop we heard him call the ground controller after he pulled off the runway and stopped, seeking taxi instructions. We thought we'd never hear the end of his admonishment from the tower. Boy! That was way back in 1986. I remember it like it was last week.

Wow, at my favorite airport no less. Many moons ago I was a recently-minted pilot renting a clapped out Cessna 172 out of KFXE. Was doing touch n go’s at KPMP (less busy, quicker patterns) when on approach my radios went kaput. As a new pilot, I was terrified and thinking that homeland security would soon chase after me with Blackhawks and guided missiles, if I failed to communicate with the tower. I sprinted up to about 2,500 ft and headed back to FXE to sort things out. I gathered up my courage, dropped it down to about 1,500 ft and circled the FXE tower, wagging my wings. Man, the relief when I got the light signals (forgot what color) and I went right into the pattern and landed. Turned out my alternator was crapped out. Did the writeup letter to the FAA and heard nothing of it since.

I had radio failure in the pattern happen to me when I was a student pilot flying solo. When the engine was running at high power setting, the radio did not work, and apparently I missed a call from the tower. When I reduced power downwind the radio came back and the tower controller first snapped at me about not answering, but was mollified when I told him about the radio issue. I was cleared to land and advised to taxi to parking and check out a different aircraft. I can't imagine how a competent pilot can do multiple patterns without getting cleared for landing or the option. Also, having a handheld COM radio in the flight bag is cheap insurance.

Wish I could hear that call to the tower!

Imagine being a fly on the wall listening to that phone conversation between tower and that pilot lol

He got violated alright.😏

FAA report concludes the pilot of N8480F to be an utter berk and has sentenced him to be executed by Captain Maggie and her rounders bat

This is truly baffling. Even if it were an untowered airport, if you have radios, USE THEM. If your radio stops working, land full stop and get it sorted out. How the heck do guys like this pass their checkride?!!

"Sorry about that" is probably not gonna cut it.

Something tells me that "he's getting violated" means the tower boss (if they exist) is going to beat the shit out of this pilot when he gets back to the hangar.

In his defense, once I asked the tower to use the light signals along with the normal radio clearance, just to have that experience, and I never saw the lights until I was on the ground. But nothing can explain WHY he did 2 of the 3 touch and go without any kind of clearance from the tower.

As I recall if your radio goes faulty then you squawk 7600 and if you have any kind of landing clearance (touch and go or full stop), then you land and vacate the runway. Otherwise you leave the pattern safely and go land at an uncontrolled airfield.

5:35 "80F copies" After all that I would have given him a "readback incorrect" and repeated the instructon and that would not stop until he got the readback correct.

VAS thanks for the captions. I learned some new aviation terms today.

Tower so mad, he didn't even give him a phone number.

I like that controller! He would make a great new Kennedy Steve!

Totally on the controllers side here. He did a fantastic job and kept it quite professional when he finally made another radio call. I'm sure the FSDO is gonna be very keen as to why you thought it was acceptable to land the airplane multiple times without a clearance, why didn't he respond to the light gun signals, and why it never occurred to him that something was off with not hearing the controller or other aircraft in the pattern.

Land Ghostrider, you are instructed to land immediately!😮

Aren't touch and go clearances good for the whole day? Like a theme park ticket?

He got some 'splainin to do.....

That does it! I’m taking my Cessna 150 into LAX tomorrow and doing touch and goes on NORDO at 10 am 😂😜

Would not surprise me if his license is either suspended or revoked completely.

Got his clearance from tower for right closed traffic, then turned off his radio so no one would bother him. Love it. The sky is full of people like this.

Haha, insane! That's one of the planes I train in. Crazy to see your own tail number in these videos.

The funniest is the guy who said “You have my support!” Lol 😂

My man gave himself a runway daypass

I fly out of this area, I’ve heard Whitted tower ream out this exact aircraft for bad radio reception. School office was laughing it up while this was happening.

I hope that guy did not get cleared to takeoff at all and had to taxi home.

I've flown in and out of Whitted many many times. I used to fly helicopters in that area before moving north, and I also know that controller. He's super chill and never gets worked up. To hear him so frustrated like this is unusual to me. I mean, we're helicopters, not exactly any Tower's favorite, but he was always cool with me and went out of his way to help me any way he could. Kinda wild to see this on here....

Many moons ago I did my Orals and Practicals(Os & Ps) for my A&P license at this airport. Been working as a mechanic for 27 years now.

Probably was reminiscing about his days flying a Cub as a nordo out somewhere in Utah.

2:11 Anyone else pick up on some vibes with how tower said "violate him"

Oh boy.... I would NOT wanna be THAT GUY!!

I love how your videos always end with the tension of "Oh man this guy's is about to get chewed out hard!"

Wow a St. Petersburg av violator. That airport is just down the street from me! Great city to live in - lots of aviation in the skies.

Dude got Aviate and Navigate down but forgot to Communicate.

I fly into SPG all the time, it's a great little GA airport with a challenging runway setup for newer pilots. I recognize the controller's voice as well. If you ever hear silence when on approach to a controlled airport you ALWAYS try to establish 2 way comms, you can ask a question like "SPG tower is 80F still cleared for the option?", if you don't get a response and the tower is in operation then you know you have bigger problems.

“I gave him a red light and he did a touch and go!” hahaha that’s the best part😂

His friend sure loved digging his hole deeper for him

"Getting violated", American radio comms are so weird!

This is in the middle of some very busy airspace. If Tampa International is operating arrivals on the 1L (1L/19R is the most used runway), then the usual approach pattern for arriving aircraft is to turn south over Tampa or Clearwater before making a 180-degree turn near this location to align with 1L (or 1R, but 1L is used more even when both parallel runways are operating). Of course, the arriving aircraft will be about 1500-2500ft at this point, but I still think that's a bit close for a VFR GA plane without radio communication. There's also MacDill Air Force base a few miles to the northeast with a main runway aligned northeast-southwest. While not as busy as TPA, it's still a large base for tankers and I'd imaging their departures would typically be to the southwest over the bay as northeast departures would be noisy as they go over urban areas. I'm not a pilot to understand how the airspace for each airport interacts along this part of Tampa Bay, but I would guess it would be based on altitude and location to allow simultaneous operations between TPA/MCF/SPG with the tiny SPG only serving general aviation controlling only a very low altitude to avoid conflict with traffic in/out of the other two. P.S. SPG seems to be a popular location for touch and go flights. I've been to the nearby St.Peter Pier a few times, and almost every time I can see small planes taking off at SPG and then pull up Flightradar24 to find small planes doing touch and go flights.

What the heck was he thinking?! Did he seriously think a single touch and go clearance gave him clearance for multiple ones?! Boy I wish we could hear that tower phone call.

This Airport Is Albert Whitted Airfield In St. Petersburg FL

On the plus side, he wasn’t letting distractions like cell phones take him away from the task of flying the plane. On the minus side… some of those distractions are kind of important. Yeesh.

Did he turn his radio off or lower the volume? It seems whatever he did was intentional...because he came back up to ask for landing clearance?

I laughed like an idiot with that IMMEDIATELY nearing the end of the video hahah

I did my flight training at Albert Whitted. The controllers there are usually extremely chill.

I just want to say, I love this airport.

Oh, it's that Air Canada 781 pilot from SFO again

Now, they'll make him hold at OFFUK.

Something similar happened at KSRQ (not far from SPG) a few years ago. The pilot kept doing touch and goes without any clearance from tower. When he finally landed, he claimed his radio wasn't working...

Unbelievable!!!

Bet this was an old guy who thought that clearance for one touch and go meant clearance for as many circuits/landings as he wished. That's a certain pilot deviation, if the controller decides to pursue it.

Dude needs a 709 ride. There’s no excuse to be doing pattern work at a towered airport without clearance.

Tower sounds pissed.

Ron Swanson is pissed!

That controller is a freak. Keep that stuff in your bedroom 😂

Thanks for posting these videos Viktor! I was referred from blancolirio

I don't know much about aviation, I just enjoy watching these videos for some reason. But even I would know better than to do this.

That's a great example of task saturation blocking out hearing. There are smoking holes in the ground from the same issue. I'm glad that's not how this one ended.

The pilot must have been like " wow, what a nice and quiet flight"

Even at 5 hours I knew you could not do anything without a clearance, and every single time you do something it requires a separate clearance. He is getting a checkride and retraining. I want to hear the phone call between him and the tower.

Perhaps he understood that when he called tower and tower said "cleared touch and go", he thought he was cleared for as many as he wanted (and then turned off the radio or something?) I don't really get it. That's certainly not what that clearance means...

had the radio fail( it just cut off and popped a CB while on base for a class C squawked 7600 and rocked my wings quite obvious and flashed my landing light to get the towers attention they gave us a solid green but man u really have to look for it sold the radio to a avionics repair school for 100 bucks and got a new garmin ( the old radio was from the 80s )

Oh, Lordy!

Yoooo, I love this ATC 5:26

He might of thought he got the touch and go clearance day pass which also includes the ignore ATC perk.

Suspend his license immediately. He thinks it's a game that you can do whatever you want to?

He thought he was getting the touch and go day pass on that first one.

Good to hear Ron Swanson got a job in the tower.

Da Burg in da house!

Be careful when he gets his license he may request countrywide multiple landing clearance too

Ron Swanson working ATC these days.

I can only imagine the mustache on this ATC

To be fair, he requested "touch and goes" so, well, he just wanted to stamp his 10 times loyalty card with this request i guess.

If this guy is a new pilot, the FAA will most likely have him do some more required training, possibly re-take the written. All depends on the circumstances. Also, whom ever signed him off may have to answer some questions. I would be curious to know the outcome.

Maybe he just wanted some alone time.

"Ghostrider you are instructed to land. Land immediately."

The fact he didn’t try another way to communicate or just get it on the ground is beyond belief

If there was EVER a time to just, at seemingly random, make a single radio call prior to each touch and go: "Postos De Combate!".... This was it. And he squandered it.

Once you know youre in trouble, dont stop using proper comm etiquette or read backs. This guy is boned

Reminds me of one of my colleagues. I'm a train driver (but mainly shunting) and we have to ask the switchman for permission to do shunting movements everytime. He did not and oh man, someone was really p*ssed up there in the signal box

Madman

Question about light gun signals: the controller says he gave him a red signal. The chart on screen says that in the air, that means "continue circling, give way." On the ground, it means stop. Could this be considered an ambiguous instruction? If he was intending to touch and go, and was given a "continue circling" light. Should he have been given the flashing green "return to land" light instead?

No read back on the taxi clearance either, my dude here thinks he's the only guy around. Main character syndrome.

Any controller who gets so emotionally worked up about a violation needs to check his priorities. Work the problem, don't yell at it! The question of who deserves what is something for later. How many times does he need to angrily announce to everybody else he's gonna violate the one person who's obviously not listening? His head was immersed in power and vengeance. That's a bad headspace when safety is at stake.

“Huh, flashing red lights, nice to know the tower is getting into the Christmas spirit! Merry Christmas to you, too, tower!”

it would be good to hear exact details of the penalty that was applied?

Someone is getting violated 😂😂😂