Oh Lord… that was painful. The ATC deserves a medal for patience.

HOw is this guy even allowed to fly.... this is so sad to listen to.

If the pilot ever reads this: never fly again please. It’s terrifying we share the same sky as you do.

It’s called a pencil. Woefully unprepared. This is the same guy who drives in the left lane for 20 miles, 5 mph below the speed limit, paralleling the semis in the right lane. Sheesh.

Legend has it that this pilot is still trying to copy the clearance. :)

That controller is an absolute SAINT. I was so ready for her to say, "Contact boston departure and get the 🤬🤬🤬🤬 out of my airspace."

Legend has it that 57DB is still on the Norwood Three Departure an indefinite holding pattern

Obvious that this guy has NO pencil & paper in the cockpit and instead obsessed with the fancy toys inside his parachute plastic plane.

Delta Bravo, discard those instructions. You're cleared to AVIS or Enterprise. You're renting a car and driving where you want to go. Please stop flying.

It's legit scary this guy doesn't know the runway he's supposed to go to. At what point can ATC stop a pilot from flying?

N57DB you are cleared direct to Terminal-A of the Boston Greyhound bus station.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a Cirrus pilot...

What's worse? Him not being able to write down a complicated clearance? Or him asking the controller on how to fly a SID? Or him doing a runway incursion? Or him not knowing where runway 10 is? Good thing he's got CAPS

Just waiting for the controller to throw in a Wicked Pissah......gotta love that Boston accent

I am neither a pilot nor a controller, but I almost lost my mind listening to this. If I was the controller, I'd be tempted to yell at him "And don't come back here ever again!"

It's clear this guy is trying to readback his instructions via his FMS as he's including all the fixes along the Victor airways. That's precisely why you need to write your clearance down and not rely on the constructed route of flight displayed on your FMS.

Wow. I just flew to HKY yesterday. I couldn't imagine this guy even following the simple taxi instructions at HKY to the ramp after landing.

As a young Air Force meteorologist, pilot weather briefings were a pretty significant part of my duties. NO ONE took off without me signing off on their DD form 175-1. Over years, I learned almost all of the waypoints around my state, and would reference these on my weather briefings. The pilots really appreciated this.

At first, I was wondering "is this guy instrument rated?". By the end I'd decided he wasn't even a student pilot.

No one should be issued an instrument rating that can’t even copy an IFR clearance. Since the pilot was issued a clearance he is completely unfamiliar with, how does he know he’s got enough fuel to fly the assigned clearance? That clearance would be a great time for an instructor to take his garmin away and see if he can plot the route on a map to determine fuel requirement manually. Technology is great until it fails.

I don't have any flight knowledge but it scares the hell out of me that this guy might be anywhere over my head - here on the ground we usually think its time to take away Grampys keys when he gets lost in the Walmart parking lot.

Anyone on here feel safe, flying with him and ending up at the right destination?

Dear lawd….that was painful!! 😂

At some point I would have to ask "sir, are you sure you're ready to go?" He seemed flustered just to be talking on the radio. He knew his flight plan was long and should have been prepared. And then to taxi the wrong way and onto a runway? He's a hazard and hasn't even lifted off yet.

The guy can't even read back a takeoff clearance correctly. That controller should have demanded he read back his entire tail number too.

Coincidently, I started listening to this in Norwood, MA as I started a car trip. It ended just as I pulled into my destination in Hickory, NC. Thanks for the company, ATC AUDIO!

And just think, the engine was idling the whole time. He used half his fuel even before taking off.

This pilot's stumbling manner was broadcast in a previous YT video. That confused performance was at airport LOU.

The controller should have flagged him for the runway incursion and uttered the phrase “possible pilot deviation” then given a phone number….

After long read back I was hoping pilot would've added, "Wash, soap, rinse, spin."

Oh my dear lord!!! That literally hurt to watch!!!

Norwood Ground: Give directions. N57DB: Ok I got 2 gallons of milk. One bag of Oreos, bottled water and a rotisserie chicken, correct? 57 Delta Bravo...

Am I the only one who cheered for the ATC once the pilot is in the air and cleared her frequency? Lol

Cirrus called. They're coming to take back their airplane.

I don't think this guy should have been cleared for take-off.

If im his passenger im skipping this trip.

Lord help this gentleman if he ever needs to decide to activate CAPS or not.

This guy is a menace to all pilots and controllers. Entirely incompetent.

This guy sounds like his flight instructor was a politician from Delaware!

I wasn’t able to pass my flight physical due to PTSD from the military… but one of the three stooges was apparently able to get his…..

The controller is awesome for having that kind of patience. Does it ever come to it when the controller has to say “you’re not flying” ?? You’re a hazard to yourself and to everyone around you. Then the FAA should make this pilot get a flight review. Just saying. This is a fast complex plane he is flying but his skill level doesn’t match it.

GodInHeavenThisControllerIsASaint.

Why was he cleared for takeoff? That was ridiculous.

this guy's a full on delta bravo

I JUST GOT A MIGRANE WITH THIS PILOT!!! JESUS!!!

this truly wasn't too hard to copy down. Perhaps this guy needs to do some instrument refresher training flights with a CFII to build his skills up a little bit. If he can't competently write this down then I seriously question whether he can competently execute the flight safely.

Wow......, just wow....

Not trying to be funny here but was this guy drunk? He showed serious signs of mental incapacitation. Did he have a fall recently and hit his head? Not kidding. This guy seemed completely out of it. Even the way he questioned whether he needed to read back the IFR clearance because it was in his FMS. Then, when he did read it back he added a lot of GPS waypoints that ATC never gave him in the initial IFR clearance. Then a couple of taxi errors!!!! He should have taxied back to the hangar and shut it down. If this pilot checked the IM SAFE acronym I would hope he would have realized he was NOT ready to go flying on this particular day.

No pilot deviation? I don’t want this guy flying over my house.

He shouldn’t be allowed to operate a pencil!!!

This is why “paper charts” are necessary BEFORE you try to load the GARMIN/FMS. NY Airspace is tough.

I assume ATC doesn't have much control over being able to stop a pilot from flying, but why didn't the controller report his "possible pilot deviation" for his runway incursion on taxi? Wouldn't the FAA have reviewed this recording to review the runway incursion and then most likely investigated further?

Controller deserves a raise. Or a pto day lol

Clearly this guy wasn’t writing down the clearance given and was probably trying to enter it into the Garmin. Poor way to do it - write it down, read it back THEN enter the route into the aircraft system….

Hi, if I had a wild guess to make, I'd say the pilot was FUI. It must have been quite a good day for the ATC as she succeeded to stay almost calm. :)

Has he even flown before? The problem started when he clearly didn't write the route down. He was confirming what he had loaded already. I doubt he wrote it down the second time - or third. He was loading on the fly.

I can’t believe that this guy flies a plane 😮

the controller is very unprofessional here they should never be getting emotional bringing anger into the equation

and despite all that he took off at what's (from memory) close to or above the rated crosswind limit of the cirus

That was painful to listen to

Wow! Did he eventually make it to his destination?

Retired controller here....this guy would be getting the phone #

LOL! 🤣 That was hilarious! 😁

HOW IS THIS GUY ALLOWED TO FLY WTF?!?!?!

how is that guy going to make it through life?

The clearance only includes the entry and exit points of airways. The garmin puts in all the intermediate points from the database, which are necessary to navigate the course. The pilot (and ideally the controller as well) should know this. But there is nothing about this exchange that gives any confidence that the pilot could fly this clearance, especially if he has any failures in the automation.

I know I've heard that controller with that tone here before

That's Harrison Ford's cousin, Gomer Ford.

Not that a Cessna 152 pilot doesn't need to be just as proficient as a jet pilot but how can this guy be flying a Cirrus?!!

12:09 "Contact Boston departure," I wanted him to say, "What's the frequency?"

11:45 I would be scared out of my mind giving him takeoff clearance.

Oh, I’m sure things get easier for him once he switched over to Boston Departure 😂

Unbelievable

I’m speechless! How does he continue to fly?

He could have walked and been there already.

What? after his instrument ride, he put flying off for a while and bought a Cirrus? How is he even got a sign off on his license? License to die. What are the chance of this flight turning into a bad weather and needing to divert? Good luck.

How embarrassing when an SR22 is greater than you.

Geez. Is this guy planning on telling the plane in midair to "hold on" if something happens that he doesn't keep up with?

My guess is he has terrible vision and can't read it

This was one of the worst interactions of the kind I've ever heard. He would have been given my supervisor's phone number after the first pathetic attempt at a read back. There's no way I would trust this guy to follow instructions in flight, he's clearly a hazard to everyone else in the sky.

Yikes!

Wow… and to think I could be in the same system with him IFR. This guy appears to be a danger. This is not even CLOSE to complicated, and yet he miserably failed it… multiple times. I am sure there is an FBO on the field. Get out of the airplane and review what you expect before piloting the aircraft

I used to always have a laminated clearance card so I knew I wasn’t missing anything. Get your head out of the electronics and write the shit down. No way this guy passed a real instrument check ride.

ATC should not release this guy. If he can't copy a clearance, he shouldn't be flying a plane.

05016G24 is fifty degrees off the runway, and 24 knots. Pretty savage crosswind component.

Should have called the cops.

Loved the Boston accents. Hated this so-called instrument rated pilot’s amazing incompetence. No way that once he took off he followed the clearance properly. This guy should be sent back to get his instrument rating again… or lose it entirely.

Well this explains a lot to me, when pilots like this one are holding an IFR license in the US,😮

Is this more complicated than usual, or fairly typical for general aviation? I'm not a pilot so have no relative measure.

never had a flight plann that long.

Is he still in the air?

I really need to get my IR.

This is making my brain hurt….

that is some really sad radio work :-(

Why is this guy even allowed to fly?

Apparently, Jerry Lewis has come back from the dead and has taken up general aviation

Yikes! Lots of red flags here

Controller talks like Elmer Fudd.

Who signed off on this guy's IFR cert? Or PPL for that matter? Readback is ALWAYS required unless you're in an unusual situation like Osh or Sun n Fun. Also...who currently flies this aircraft? I looked it up on FlightAware and it looks like it's either being used for flight training or some old dude takes it out for laps in the pattern somewhat often. I also see a few 5+ hour flights... I've never flown the SR22, but I suspect that's pretty darn close to fuel minimums there.

Not a pilot or ATC but that guy was trying my patience , the longer he got mixed up . Think he should seriously consider another occupation . About as safe as an unexploded bomb .