Originally Posted by Tower R
you had received a clearance to taxi but you didn`t follow it and it appears that you didn`t question it either and just came to a hault. Why would the vacating aircraft be on ground frequency? If it was instructed to hold short of the taxiway to give way to you it was still on the runway and should still be with Twr.
- in the absence of published instructions or R/T clearance, DA42 quite rightly gave way to the traffic with right of way. It was the ground controller's fault in not informing DA that he had precedence.
Is this not very simple? UNLESS there is a published order of priority or one notified by R/T, clearance to land clears an aircraft ONLY to use the landing surface designated. It does not clear it to taxy at will around the airport. Once that a/c has crossed the line it is no longer on the landing surface and is now on a taxyway, and requires clearance to proceed. In the absence of such it should ideally halt but certainly give way IAW rules of the air(ground) and commonsense.