On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:58:25 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote in
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In article . net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

People see what they expect to see.

A pilot sitting on a runway obviously wouldn't expect to see an airplane
landing on that runway.

Yeah, no pilot ever sees that, or ever even looks. That's how I was
taught years ago. Once cleared on the runway, I know it's always
mine and never ever need to look.

not

Exactly. Arguing that a pilot should place his aircraft in the path
of arriving traffic and in a position from which he is unable to
observer arriving traffic, in the name of expediency, is contrary to
good safety practice.

The fact that pilots may at times under IFR operations place the
well-being of their flights in the hands of ATC controllers does not
mitigate the risk caused by the Position And Hold procedure.