Exascoteer your opinion seems to be in complete disagreement with scarecrow450.
The important issue is that an aircraft does not enter the runway without clearance, the and tne point in question here is how to do this with the minimum of radio traffic, if the radio transmission can also assure a pilot who is about to land that the aircraft taxing to the hold is not about to enter the runway so much the better.
So Exascoteer let's take the example of an aircraft checking in on the tower frequency as it is taxing to the hold.
Aircraft. "Xxxx tower xxxxx taxing to hold short runway xx"
Tower. "Roger"
The other way
Aircraft. "Xxxx tower xxxxxx taxing to hold runway xx"
Tower. "xxxxxx hold at xxx
Aircraft. "xxxxxx holding at xxxx"
Both ways achieve the objective but which passes the most information in the least radio air time ?
Last edited by A and C; 9th Feb 2013 at 17:42.