FAA safety notice on ground ops/TO

Robert M. Gary wrote:
Emily wrote:
Jim Macklin wrote:

That's weird, same thing happened on my work email.

The one thing that jumped out at me was requesting progressive
taxi...I'm forever explaining to students that it's OK to do that.

I often ask but rarely get them. Usually you get something like "just
take alpha to bravo". I could have gotten that from the taxi clearance.
I was expecting something like, "continue taxing until you pass the
citation, then turn right...".

-Robert

I can't remember if it was SDF or LEX, but I got so hopelessly turned
around one night (was raining and dark and foggy) that I'm surprised I'm
not still driving around. Asked for progressive, and got exactly what
you described....so I kept hounding ground until I got what I was
looking for. Only time I've ever requested it, but I'm glad I did.

(the really funny thing was, it wasn't the first time I'd been to
whatever airport I was at and I had the diagram in my lap...it was just
one of those days)