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Old 1st Aug 2023, 03:46
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Originally Posted by Lead Balloon
If by "this" you mean traffic using different, crossing runways at uncontrolled aerodromes, and transmissions being garbled, over-transmitted or not heard due to finger trouble: Quite frequently in my experience.
No. Specifically the use of a cross runway with an expectation that the landing aircraft will hold short of the intersecting runway.

Originally Posted by Lead Balloon
But if the first aircraft is using the most into wind runway, it is also true that the pilot of the aircraft landing on the crossing runway shouldn't be doing so unless, among other things, satisfied, after taking into consideration the other traffic, that it is safe to land on the crossing runway.
My intent was not to identify right and wrong. In the scenario you describe it is important that pilots resolve any ambiguity in the regulations, intended or otherwise using airmanship and communication. Equally, habitual flexing of the regulations can become normalised until something breaks. An example would be routine reduction of separation criteria because noone has ever experienced the need to go-round or reject a take-off.

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