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DE727UPS · October 18th, 2006, 02:16

You can jump on my backside all you want. I learned something from this thread.

If it's that big a deal, I'm not sure how I somehow got this far in my aviation career without it being impressed upon me as being as important as you think it is. I was an ATA at LA Tracon at one time and on my pilot groups ATC liason committe, too.

I know what anticipated seperation is, but it seems a word to the landing aircraft to hold short of your intersection would make more sense. If I can make it to a safe speed to turn off onto a runway I can hold short of it, too. No big deal. Or tell the lander on final to expidite across your intersection and a specific turnoff to take.

It's one of those things where you're right that the pilot shouldn't have done it but a simple word to the wise would have kept everyone in the loop.

A good example is when I'm told to "taxi to a runway", that's a clearance to cross any "non-active" runway on my way. So, how do I know a runways active or not? Does it have to be on the ATIS? My understanding is that the local controller can make a runway active anytime it suits him. How's the pilot supposed to know?

I've got yelled at maybe ten times for bothing ground with a clairification on a runway crossing and never yelled at for what you're yelling at me for. Guess it's not a perfect system, eh?

October 18th, 2006, 02:16	#15
DE727UPS Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 6,592	Re: Exiting a runway on to the active runway You can jump on my backside all you want. I learned something from this thread. If it's that big a deal, I'm not sure how I somehow got this far in my aviation career without it being impressed upon me as being as important as you think it is. I was an ATA at LA Tracon at one time and on my pilot groups ATC liason committe, too. I know what anticipated seperation is, but it seems a word to the landing aircraft to hold short of your intersection would make more sense. If I can make it to a safe speed to turn off onto a runway I can hold short of it, too. No big deal. Or tell the lander on final to expidite across your intersection and a specific turnoff to take. It's one of those things where you're right that the pilot shouldn't have done it but a simple word to the wise would have kept everyone in the loop. A good example is when I'm told to "taxi to a runway", that's a clearance to cross any "non-active" runway on my way. So, how do I know a runways active or not? Does it have to be on the ATIS? My understanding is that the local controller can make a runway active anytime it suits him. How's the pilot supposed to know? I've got yelled at maybe ten times for bothing ground with a clairification on a runway crossing and never yelled at for what you're yelling at me for. Guess it's not a perfect system, eh?