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While hardly as dramatic, what you are describing is the set-up for a
chain-reaction automobile accident: one car suddenly stops, the car behind crashes into the car ahead, the car behind that crashes into the car ahead, and so on. Anytime a vehicle in traffic makes an unexpected movement, the probability of a collision or an impairment of traffic movement goes up markedly. When you are taxiing, ground control knows where your are, where you are going, the assigned route, and roughly how fast you are moving. They know the same things about the other ground traffic, and they take all of this in consideration when handling traffic. You are moving on a taxiway; there is a crossing taxiway ahead of you. There is another aircraft in motion 1/4 mile down the crossing taxiway and ground intends to have this aircraft cross your taxiway behind you. If you slow down or stop it will affect the movement of the other aircraft, which may well affect the movement of still other aircraft, and so on. Or there may be inbound heading for the runway you are supposed to cross. If you stop, it may force another aircraft to go around, or a following aircraft which is not expecting you to stop may rear-end you. What might appear, at first glance, to be a safer method may in fact be a far more dangerous method. Common sense would tell you to look before crossing a runway or taxiway, but stopping when not instructed to is not at all helpful... "Effie Andree Wiltens" wrote in message om... "Morgans" asked... It was my understanding that a "taxi to_ _ runway" gives permission to cross all other runways, except the runway that you have been given clearance to. Right, or wrong? Uhm, perhaps I can venture a remark here. When I was flying at KHPN, where multi-runway use is not uncommon, I was told that it was not necessary to obtain crossing clearance on the way to the active runway I was cleared for. I'm used to more stringent runway infringement rules in other countries, I guess, and since it's no trouble to me I always stopped short of any runway and asked for clearance to cross at my position. It's a big busy airport, after all, and it is possible for some light arircraft popping up from behind the trees not seeing me in time. Sometimes ATC was annoyed at having to deal with my "unnecessary call", but I still think it's a good practice. Better safe than sorry... --FE |
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