"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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I was coming in to land on RWY 4 at ROC. There was a North West MD80 at
the hold short line. Almost as soon as my mains touched down, before I'd
slowed down, the tower controller cleared the North West flight to take
off. I came back with "977 is still on the runway on runway 4", with a
rather urgent tone of voice because I didn't want to become the next
Tenerife. The controller, instead of cancelling the take off clearance
for the North West flight like I expected, came back with my taxi
instructions.

I'm hoping the North West flight saw me or heard me, but it seems to me
that it was wrong for the controller to rely on that. I'm going to file
a NASA form, but is there anything else I should do?


Right or wrong, I think you have a valid gripe. Giving the MD80 clearance to
take off at that point served no valid purpose, and posed at least a
potential risk. What if you stalled, the controller got busy, the MD80
didn't see you stall, etc, etc.

If he was in a hurry to roll the MD80, a taxi to position and hold would got
him rolling, and he could have up dated it with clearance to take off, the
minute you cleared the active. If there was indeed plenty of time, the MD80
would have never had time to stop rolling, before receiving the final
clearance.