Hi criss,
see I am not the only one who thinks "Hold Short" is not that good.
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StandupfortheUlstermen
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Where the singing aardvarks told me I should be but when they stop singing I'm gonna escape
Posts: 1,125
No ATCO should ever say 'hold short of runway xx'. Don't give a toss what any book says, it's bad practice and will lead to a runway incursion. I've seen this very thing happen at my unit in the last 12 months. The ATCO involved had a talking to from me afterwards.
Should you ever be given an instruction telling you to 'hold short of runway xx', you should ask for clarification of exactly where you are to hold.
SN,
Unit Competancy Examiner,
Out-in-the-sticks International
Can think of much R/T that had been added, changed and removed from the good book of R/T. Just because its in the good book of one country or used by people in another country, it does not mean its good R/T.
Dont care what they say at LHR, listen to the BBC TV series East Enders and you'll see that they dont talk to good anyway.
Remember, if there is room for a missunderstanding to become an error, it will become an accident, sooner or later. Just hope I am not a passenger on that airplane. I like to arrive on my feet and not in a bag.