And there you have it. Pedanticism over airmanship. The gist of what I'm getting at completely overlooked....
You're right, I shouldn't have, in my haste, put the word "cleared" inside the inverted commas here on PPrune - yes, the word "cleared" is only verbalised in take-off and landing clearances. All other clearances we don't say the word "cleared". Naughty me, I should have cut & paste from the AIP when writing on PPrune after a cross continent red-eye.
But surely my point hasn't been lost? If you haven't been cleared to "CROSS", given the instruction to "CROSS", heard the word "CROSS"...... then you'd better not CROSS without clarifying?
God help us if instead of speaking up and clarifying, we decide its more important to go heads down into the AIP and begin a debate about whether that was standard phraseology? Airmanship and common sense, anybody?
Last edited by Ushuaia; 29th Nov 2016 at 05:16.