"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
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OK, perhaps I had my head up my... errr, you know. Perhaps the other
guy could have made a better radio call. Anyhow...

I landed at a very quiet uncontrolled field a few weeks ago. As I
taxied back on the taxiway for my departure, I kept hearing a helicopter
calling out pattern legs for a place called "tango". As I recall, he
never mentioned the name of the field, or used the word "taxiway" in his
radio call, so I assumed that he was just practicing at some nearby pad.
(My error, when in doubt...) It wasn't until I had taken off that I
realized that I had been using taxiway T. I probably seriously ****ed the
guy off, and/or risked having a helicopter land on top of me.

Lesson learned!

So now the question. Who has priority on a taxiway? Surface traffic
or landing traffic?


I don't believe I've ever seen or heard anything either way, I don't think
it needs to be. It's called a "taxiway" for a reason.