On Nov 29, 4:16 am, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in ...

On Nov 28, 4:18 am, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:

And if the tower respnds by telling you you're released? What do you do?

That's never happened.

It hasn't happened to you yet. What will you do when it does?

That would be somewhat odd for a controller to release you at a
tower'd field but not clear you for take off. The phrase we need to
hear is 'cleared for takeoff'.


ATC seems to be able to secure the release during taxi at most 40% of
the time. Usually when you tell tower you are ready to go they tell
you that they are still waiting for your release from departure.

That's rather inefficient.

Well I'd love it if my release was ready when I got to the runup, but
sadly I've found it to be less than common.

Since that almost killed me once, I'm not going to do it again.

Please explain how reporting "ready for departure" almost killed you.

I thought I already did. I told tower I was "ready for takeoff runway
XXX". Tower said "Cleared for take off", I said "what about that big
airliner on final, tower said, "oh I though you were at the VFR
runway, YYY, hold short XXX". This was at a class C airport.

-Robert