Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
In 18 years of flying, I've never run across this before. Is this
something new, peculiar to RDU, or was he just mistaken? Whenever I've
been in this situation before, ground always was the one to tell me to
cross a runway and taxi on to my departing runway. Granted, it could
be the same controller just on a different freq....


Your instructor was mistaken. You should remain with ground control until
ready to request takeoff clearance unless told otherwise.


I agree. I'd have stayed with ground until I was ready for takeoff from the
runway I was going to use. When I was ready to actually take off after runup,
I'd switch to tower to get the go-ahead to actually enter the runway for either
immediate departure or taxi and hold, as the case may be.

I flew out of RDU Monday through Friday for a time as a courier pilot and never
heard of this before. And RDU is probably busy enough to have its own ground
controller.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com