On Mar 11, 10:03*am, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in ...

The instructor was wrong. *If local procedures call for the pilot to be on
tower frequency for runway crossing instructions the ground controller would
have instructed the pilot to contact tower.

You would think but when I've had the same experience ground has also
assumed I knew to ask tower. The instructor is not wrong simply
because the controller forgot the instructions. If this CFI flys out
of this airport several times a day and knows the procedure, it does
not make him wrong simply because ATC forgot to state the procedure.

-Robert